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Maffra, New South Wales

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Map of Clyde and Cowper Counties 1886 by John Sands.[1]

Maffra Parish, New South Wales is a Bounded locality of Bourke Shire and a civil Parish of Cowper County, New South Wales,[2] a cadasteral division of central New South Wales.[3]

Geography

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The parish is on the Mitchell Highway and the Main Western railway line, New South Wales, and the nearest settlement is the town of Byerock a kilometer to the south.

The topography of the Parish is flat. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BSh (Hot semi arid).[4]

References

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  1. ^ The New atlas of Australia (John Sands 1886) map 22.
  2. ^ Map of the County of Cowper : Western and Central Divisions, New South Wales, 1914.(the Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
  3. ^ "Cowper County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ 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)