Currabenya, New South Wales
Currabenya, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil Parish, of Thoulcanna County,[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]
Geography
[edit]The topography is flat and arid with a Köppen climate classification of Bwh (Desert).[3]
The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture (mainly Cattle), and there are no towns in the parish. The nearest settlements are Hungerford, Queensland; Wanaaring, New South Wales; and Tibooburra, New South Wales to the west. The Queensland and New South Wales borders run along the northern boundary of the parish.
History
[edit]The parish is on the traditional land of the Bardadji people, and in the 1890s was included in the Albert Gold Fields.
References
[edit]- ^ Map of the County of Thoulcanna, Western Division, N.S.W., 1914 (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
- ^ "Thoulcanna". 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. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
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