Yantabulla, New South Wales

Yantabulla, New South Wales is a ghost town in far north west New South Wales, Australia. It is on the border of New South Wales and Queensland.

The post code for Yantabulla is 2840.

The town is on the traditional lands of the Paaruntyi people.[1]

The village is adjacent to the Yantabulla Swamp,[2] part of the Ramsar listed Currawinya Important Bird Area.

Yantabulla has been noted as being the future location of the rare double-sighting of solar eclipses within short intervals of one another,[3] and should experience three eclipses before 2040.

The town is in Irrara County,[4] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[5]

References
  1. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Parundji (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. p198.
  2. Yantabulla map
  3. If you want to see less of the sun, become an Australian
  4. County of Irrara, Western Division, Land District of Bourke, Darling Shire / compiled, drawn & printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney, N.S.W (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1964).
  5. "Irrara County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.


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