Parish of Boorla

Boorla located at 30.968333°S 141.859167°E / -30.968333; 141.859167 is a remote civil parish of Mootwingee County in far North West New South Wales.[1]

Geography

Mootwingee County.

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)[2]. The nearest town is Tibooburra to the north and Whitecliffs to the east.

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali peoples[3] Aboriginal peoples.[4]

Charles Sturt passed through the area during 1845,[5] In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east.[6]

gollark: Yes. I'm aware some people didn't, but it would be significantly worse if they did more of them.

gollark: They probably *won't* be if the perception is that they will just do it arbitrarily and repeatedly for ages and it just slows down things at best.

gollark: Anyway, people have seemingly been mostly willing to engage in obeying lockdown when there was a clearish danger and it seemed like a temporary onetime thing.

gollark: Congratulations, you handed power over to the test designers?

gollark: Also, the more times they end up doing them the less willing people will be to actually abide by the rules.

References

"Mootwingee County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
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)
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.
Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.

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[1] "Mootwingee County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

[Peel-2] 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)

[3] Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.

[4] David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.

[5] Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.

[6] The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.