Gunderbooka County

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Gunderbooka
Location in New South Wales
Location in New South Wales
CountryAustralia
StateNew South Wales
Population
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Lands administrative divisions around Gunderbooka
Irrara Culgoa Culgoa
Barrona Gunderbooka Narran
Landsborough Yanda Cowper

Gunderbooka County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales.

Geography

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The Warrego River is the western boundary, and the Culgoa River and Darling River is the south-eastern boundary. It includes the area down to where the Warrego meets the Darling, to the north of Bourke (including North Bourke).

The village of Ford's Bridge, the town of Enngonia and Burke all lie just outside the county with North Bourke being the only settlement currently in the county. The entirety of the county is incorporated, with the seat of government being located in Bourke.

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The Darling River is the boundary between Gunderbooka and Cowper.

Etymology

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Gunderbooka is believed to be derived from a local Aboriginal word and is also the name of Gundabook Station.[1]

History

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The area occupied by the country was the traditional lands of three groups of Aboriginal tribes.

Living In the west of the County along the Warrego river, were the Gunu people, living in the south along the flood plain of the Darling River were the Barranbidgee people with the Wangoibon tribes living on the adjacent river bank of the Darling River, in what is today Cowper Country.

In the north of the County lived the Manuwari people.

The first Europeans to the County were the expedition of Charles Sturt in 1828. Followed by the expedition of Thomas Mitchell in 1835.

Poet Henry Lawson came to the Country walking from Bourke to Hungerford in 1892.

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Landscape of Coooer Parish in Gunderbooka Country

And another poet, Oglevy coined the phrase "Back of Burke" to describe the remoteness of the northern part of the country during his time working in Engonnia in the years around Federation.

Parishes within this county

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A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:

Parish LGA Coordinates
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Bibildoolie Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Booka Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Bothadoola Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Boyong Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Brandis Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Bullamunta Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Coolamon Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Cooning Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Cooper Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Courallie Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Cumbooka Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Cuttabulla Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Darling Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Fords Bridge Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Franklin Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Galar Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Goldson Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Greig Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Ledknapper Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Leila Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Looden Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Mooramia Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Mumpber Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Mungunyah Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Nellys Springs Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Nidgerie Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
North Bourke Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Nulty Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Paka Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Palmer Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Pera Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Polo Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Quondong Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Sutherland Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Talaa Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Tobin Bourke Shire unknown
Toorale Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Tresillian Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Tully Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Turee Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Warraweena Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Wommera Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Yarraman Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Yurongan Bourke Shire Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.

References

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