Mootwingee County.

Byngnano located at 31°05′55″S 142°18′50″E is a remote civil parish of Mootwingee County in far North West New South Wales.[1] The Geography, of the Parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The nearest town is Whitecliffs to the east.

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali speaking[2] Aboriginal peoples.[3]

Geography

The parish is located in the Mutawintji National Park.

Byngnano Range is one of the westernmost localities in New South Wales. The nearest ocean is the Southern Ocean about 450 km west-southwest of Byngnano Range.[4] The nearest more populous place is the village of White Cliffs which is 83 km away with a population of around 220 . Byngnano Range is at an altitude of about 386m above sea level.[5] The Byngnano has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Mootwingee County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  2. ↑ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  3. ↑ David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  4. ↑ Map of Byngnano Range, NSW.
  5. ↑ Map of Byngnano Range, NSW.
  6. ↑ 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)


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