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King, New South Wales

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A map of Evelyn County in New South Wales.

King Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales,[1] Australia.[2]

The parish is located at 29°47′23″S 142°00′00″E / 29.78972°S 142.00000°E / -29.78972; 142.00000 (King) near Tibooburra. The geography of Stewart is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country.

History

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The parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali and Malyangaba people[3] and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,[4] Aboriginal peoples.[5]

April 1529 Spain and Portugal divided the world between themselves with the Treaty of Zaragoza, their dividing line passed through the parish.

Charles Sturt passed by the parish during 1845,[6] and camped at Preservation Creek to the north for six months.

In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.[7]

Gold was discovered nearby in the Albert Goldfield in 1880.[8] In June 1902 a large meteorite landed at nearby Mt Brown.[9] Temperatures in the area can reach 50 °C.

References

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  1. ^ "Evelyn County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Map of Eelyn County.
  3. ^ Aboriginal Heritage Corner Country History & Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". 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 from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  7. ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ^ THE ALBERT GOLD-FIELDS. The Sydney Morning Herald Mon 18 Aug page 8.
  9. ^ Ramdohr, P. (1973). The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorite.