Thoulcanna County

Flood Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil Parish, of Thoulcanna County,[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]

Geography

The topography is the flat and arid with a Köppen climate classification of Bwh (Desert).[3]

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Cattle, and there are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Hungerford, Queensland and Wanaaring, New South Wales, with Tibooburra, New South Wales further to the west. The parish will be the site of a Total Solar Eclipse on 25 Nov, 2030.[4]

History

The parish is on the traditional land of the Bardadji people, and in the 1890s was included in the Albert Gold Fields. The parish was part of Berawinna Downs Station in the 20th century.

References

  1. ↑ Map of the County of Thoulcanna, Western Division, N.S.W., 1914 (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
  2. ↑ "Thoulcanna". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  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. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University.


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