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Goorpooka, New South Wales

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Yungnulgra County, NSW.

Goorpooka, New South Wales in Central Darling Shire is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

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 about 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),[3]. is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[4]


References

  1. ^ "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
  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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  4. ^ NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC..