Parish of Coyurunda

Mootwingee County.

Coyurunda located at 30°46′51″S 141°47′19″ is a remote civil parish of Mootwingee County in far North West New South Wales.[1]

The Geography, of the Parish is mostly the flat, arid scrubland. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert)[2]. The parish is midway between White Cliffs, New South Wales and Broken Hill, New South Wales and is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali language[3] Aboriginal peoples.[4]

References

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

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