Place in New South Wales, Australia
| Milring, New South Wales New South Wales | |||||||||
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 Country around Milring | |||||||||
  Milring, New South Wales | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°43′55″S 141°52′05″E / 29.732°S 141.868°E / -29.732; 141.868 | ||||||||
| Population | 0 (2016 census) | ||||||||
| Established | 1880 | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2880 | ||||||||
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | Unincorporated Far West Region | ||||||||
| County | Evelyn | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Barwon | ||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Farrer | ||||||||
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Milring Parish is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales. located at 29°54′29″S 141°40′53″E.
Geography
The geography of the Parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). The nearest town is Tibooburra to the north east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.
History
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali and to a lesser extent Karenggapa, Aboriginal peoples.
Charles Sturt passed through the area and camping for six months at nearby Preservation Creek, during 1845,
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.
References
- Map of the County of Evelyn : Western Division.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
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