Parish of Border
Border, New South Wales is a remote civil Parish, of the County of Delalah[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]
Geography
[edit]The Parish is located at 29°07′01″S 143°07′21″E. The topography is the flat arid landscape of the Channel County with a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot semi arid).[3]
The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Wheat, and sheep. There are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Tibooburra, New South Wales and Hungerford, Queensland. The Queensland and New South Wales Border runs along the northern boundary of the parish.
History
[edit]The parish is on the traditional land of the Karrengappa people. The first Europeans through the area were Burke and Wills and in the 1890s was included in the Albert Goldfields.
References
[edit]- ^ Map of the County of Delalah, Western Division, N.S.W., 1914 Archived 11 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
- ^ "Delalah". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2018. (direct: Final Revised Paper Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine)
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