Parish of Nantomoko

Landscape around Nantomoko

Nantomoko is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far northwest New South Wales.[1][2] located at 29°12′51″S 141°04′50″E﻿ / ﻿29.2143°S 141.0805°E﻿ / -29.2143; 141.0805

## Geography[edit]

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).[3] The county is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150 km2 and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.

The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and the parish lies south of the Sturt National Park.[4] There is also a small settlement at Cameron's Corner just over the Queensland Border.

## History[edit]

The parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali[5] and to some extent Karenggapa,[6] Aboriginal peoples.[7]

Charles Sturt passed through the parish during 1845,[8] and In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east,[9] through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area.[10]

Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s, and the miners were followed by pastoral farming enterprises.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Poole County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
2. ^ / Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, ,
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. ^ Olive Downs campground.
5. ^ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage].
6. ^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". 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 Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
9. ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
10. ^ NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.

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