Parish of Kooltoo
Parish of Kooltoo, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Yantara County in far North West New South Wales.[1] The geography of the parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[2]
The nearest town is Tibooburra to the northwest, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of Sturt National Park.
The area around Wonominta Creek is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[3]
Climate
[edit | edit source]The landscape is flat, arid desert with a hot desert climate.[4] The annual average temperature is 23 °C. The warmest month is January, when the average temperature is 34 °C, and the coldest is June, at 10 °C. The average annual average is 306 millimeters. The rainy month is February, with an average of 109 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 1 mm rainfall.[5]
History
[edit | edit source]The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali[6]Aboriginal peoples.[7]
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed through the area.[8]
References
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- ^ Peel, MC; Finlayson, BL; McMahon, T A (2007). " Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification ". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11: p. 1633–1644.
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- ^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
- ^ David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
- ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
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