Woraro Parish, New South Wales

Woraro Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

Geography

The Parish an arid landscape and has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),.[3] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[4] . The nearest town is Whitecliffs to the east.

Climate

The parish has extremely hot summers and mild winters. The annual average rainfall is 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate.

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu.[5][6] Aboriginal peoples.[7]

In 1838 Thomas Mitchell (explorer) travelled down the nearby Darling River.

Charles Sturt passed through the Wandjiwalgu lands during 1845,[8] In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.[9]

Opal was discovered in the area in the late 19th century.

References
  1. "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
  3. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  4. NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC..
  5. David R Horton,Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996
  6. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  7. David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  8. Sturt's Central Australian Expedition.
  9. The Burke and Wills Expedition.


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