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Moolook, New South Wales

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Mouloonk is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales. located at 30°09′04″S 141°07′08″E.

Geography

Evelyn County

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 east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.

The western boundary of the parish is the South Australian border.

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali Aboriginal peoples.

Charles Sturt passed through the area during 1845, In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east.

References

  1. "Poole County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. Map of the County of Evelyn: Western Division.
  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)
  4. Olive Downs campground.
  5. Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage.
  6. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  7. David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  8. Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.


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