Map of Evelyn County.

The Parish of Essie, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Evelyn County, New South Wales in far northwest New South Wales,[1][2] located at 29°50′23″S 141°08′05″E / 29.839722°S 141.134722°E / -29.839722; 141.134722, on the border with South Australia.

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 nearest town is Tibooburra to the north, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.[4]

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali[5] and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,[6] Aboriginal peoples.[7]

When James Cook claimed New South Wales for Great Britain from Possession Island.[8] He claimed the territory up to the 141st meridian east making the Parish of Essie on the border of that claim.

Charles Sturt passed to the west of the parish and camped for six months at nearby Preservation Creek, during 1845.[9]

In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.[10] Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.

References

  1. ↑ Map of the County of Evelyn  : Western Division.
  2. ↑ "Evelyn County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  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. ↑ Secret Instructions to Lieutenant Cook 30 July 1768
  9. ↑ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.


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