Gnalta, New South Wales
Gnalta is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]
Gnalta Station is a homestead on the Mount Wright Creek in northwest New South Wales, about 550 km northeast of Adelaide, South Australia and 890 km northwest of Sydney, Australia.
History
[edit]Silicified trilobites fossils from the early middle Cambrian have been found at Gnalta.
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu.[3][4] Aboriginal peoples.[5]
The station was at one time owned by Goldsbrough Mort and Company.
Geography
[edit]Gnalta is about 183m above sea level.[6] although Gnalta Peak reaches about 270m above sea level.[7] The Parish has an arid landscape. and the nearest town is Whitecliffs.
The parish has extremely hot summers and mild winters. Summers would usually exceed 36 °C. Winters are usually around 17°C. The annual average rainfall is 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),.[8] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[9]
The nearest town is the village of White Cliffs, New South Wales.
References
[edit]- ^ "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
- ^ David R Horton, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996
- ^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). 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.
- ^ Map of Gnalta, NSW.
- ^ Map of Gnalta Peak, NSW.
- ^ 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)
- ^ NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC. Archived 9 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
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