Bright Parish, (Yanda County) in Cobar Shire is a civil parish[1] of Yanda County,[2] a Cadastral division of New South Wales.[3][4][5][6]

Geography

Map of Yanda County (NSW) Australia

The Parish is located at 31°00′13″S 145°01′30″E / 31.0035°S 145.0249°E / -31.0035; 145.0249.

The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).[7] The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, based on Wheat, sheep and cattle.

The traditional owners of the area are the Barkindji people.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Map of the County of Yanda, Western Division, NSW 1918.
  2. ↑ [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, Map of the County of Rankin: Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. – 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).
  3. ↑ "Rankin". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  4. ↑ The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24.
  5. ↑ Yanda County Archived 6 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine, GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT.
  6. ↑ The New atlas of Australia, (John Sands, 1886), map 24.
  7. ↑ 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)
  8. ↑ Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  9. ↑ Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.


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