Parish of Sturt
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Sturt Parish is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales,[1][2] located at Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)..
Geography
[edit | edit source]The Geography, of Sturt is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.[3]
History
[edit | edit source]The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali[4] and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,[5] Aboriginal peoples.[6]
Charles Sturt camped at nearby Preservation Creek[7] (Mount Poole) for six months during 1845,[8] and in 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east,[9] through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area.[10]
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.
References
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- ^ / Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, ,
- ^ Olive Downs campground.
- ^ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage.
- ^ 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 Sydney Morning Herald Sat 5 Mar 1932, Page 9.
- ^ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.
