Quinyambi, New South Wales
Quintyambi is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2] located at 30°18′40″S 141°05′05″E.
Geography
The Geography, of the Parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.[3]
The western baundary of the parish is the South Australian border.
History
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali[4][5]Aboriginal peoples.[6] The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert)[7]. Charles Sturt passed through the area during 1845,[8] In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.[9]
References
- ^ "Evelyn County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- ^ Map of the County of Evelyn:Western Division.
- ^ Olive Downs campground.
- ^ Aboriginal Heritage, Corner Country History & Heritage].
- ^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". 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.
- ^ 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) - ^ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition.
- ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition.
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