Sturt Parish Pool County (NSW) Sturt Parish is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales ,[ 1] [ 2] 29°25′59″S 141°31′11″E / 29.433056°S 141.519722°E / -29.433056; 141.519722
Geography
The Geography, of Sturt is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country . The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park .[ 3]
History
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali [ 4] Karenggapa ,[ 5] Aboriginal peoples.[ 6]
Charles Sturt camped at nearby Preservation Creek [ 7] Mount Poole ) for six months during 1845,[ 8] Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east ,[ 9] Pindera Aboriginal Area .[ 10]
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.
References
^ "Poole County" . Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW . Geographical Names Board of New South Wales .^ / Map of the County of Poole : Western Division , ,^ Olive Downs campground .^ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Corner Country History & Heritage.^ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
^ David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
^ The Sydney Morning Herald Sat 5 Mar 1932, Page 9 .^ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine .^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine .^ NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park , (2017) p 22.
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