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Parish of Tooncurrie

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Tooncurrie Parish located at 29°31′44″S 142°13′52″E just east of Tibooburra, New South Wales is a cadastral parish of Tongowoko County New South Wales.^[1] The town of Tibooburrais just outside the parish.^[2]

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)^[3]. The County is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150km² and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.

Gold was found in the area in the 1870 but today the parish is just inside the Sturt National Park. Water scarcity has always been a problem to habitation.

Other than Sturt National Park, the main feature of the parish is Tibooburra airport.

References

1. ^{{NSW GNR|id = KWQloeUlMn|title = Tongowoko|accessdate = 4 August 2013}}
2. ^Map of the County of Tongowoko: Western Division, Land District of Willyama.
3. ^{{cite journal | last1=Peel |first1=M. C. |last2=Finlayson |first2=B. L. |last3=McMahon |first3=T. A. | year=2007 | title= Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification | journal=Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume=11 | pages=1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 | url=http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.html | issn = 1027-5606}} (direct: Final Revised Paper)

2 : Parishes of Kennedy County|Far West (New South Wales)

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