Parish of Gooruba

Gooruba, New South Wales, located at 30°23′56″S 142°11′53″E, is a remote civil parish of Mootwingee County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

Geography
Mootwingee County.

The Geography, of the Parish is mostly a flat, arid landscape although ephemeral lakes are found in the area. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert)[3]. The nearest town is Whitecliffs to the east.

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali speaking[4] Aboriginal peoples.[5]

Charles Sturt passed through the area during 1845,[6] and in 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.[7]

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References
  1. "Mootwingee County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  2. Map of Gooruba.
  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. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  4. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  5. David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  6. Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.


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