Parish of Nantomoko

Nantomoko is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2] located at 29°21′43″S 141°08′05″E.

Landscape around Nantomoko

Geography

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

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, the miners were followed by postural enterprises.

References
  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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