Rosstrevor, New South Wales in Central Darling Shire is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
Geography The Parish an arid landscape. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),. (direct: Final Revised Paper) is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometre.NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC.. The nearest town is Whitecliffs 2 km to the west.
Climate The parish has extremely hot summers and mild winters. Summers would usually exceed 36 °C. Winters are usually around 17 °C. The annual average rainfall is which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate.
History
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu.David R Horton,Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196. Aboriginal peoples.David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
In 1838 Thomas Mitchell (explorer) travelled down the nearby Darling River. Charles Sturt passed through the Wandjiwalgu lands during 1845, and in 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.
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