Currabenya, New South Wales

Thoulcanna County

Currabenya, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil Parish, of Thoulcanna County,[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]

Geography

The topography is the flat and arid with a Köppen climate classification of Bwh (Desert).[3]

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Cattle, and there are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Hungerford, Queensland and wanaaring, New South wales, with Tibooburra, New South Wales to the west. The Queensland and New South Wales Border runs along the northern boundary of the parish.

History

The parish is on the traditional land of the Bardadji people, and in the 1890s was included in the Albert Gold Fields.

References

  1. ↑ Map of the County of Thoulcanna, Western Division, N.S.W., 1914 (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
  2. ↑ "Thoulcanna". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  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)

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