Parish of Budda

Budda Parish in Cobar Shire is a civil parish of Rankin County,[1]; a Cadastral division of New South Wales.[2][3]

Rankin county NSW.

The Parish is on the Darling River upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales and is located at 31°07′15″S 144°16′48″E.

Geography

The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid)[4].

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, based on Wheat and sheep.

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Barundji and Barkindji people.[5][6]

In 1835, explorer Major Thomas Mitchell was the first European to the region, in which he traced the Darling River to what is now Menindee.[7] In June 1866, the township of Wilcannia was proclaimed.[7]

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See also

References
  1. [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).
  2. "Rankin". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  3. The New atlas of Australia] (John Sands, 1886) map 22.
  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)
  5. Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  6. Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.
  7. "Wilcannia – Culture and History". Fairfax Media. November 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2013.


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