Mullengudgery, New South Wales
Mullengudgery, New South Wales is a rural locality of Bogan Shire and a civil parish of Oxley County, New South Wales,[1] one of the cadastral divisions of the state.[2]
The parish is on Belaringar Creek and the Main Western railway line just east of Nyngan[3] and just north of the geographical centre of New South Wales. There is a disused railway halt at Mullengudgery. The former halt’s sign is retained along the railway line near a sheep station of the same name.
The economy of the parish is based on broad acre agriculture of sheep, cattle and wheat. The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).[4]
The traditional owners of the area are the Wiradjuri.[5][6] people.
References
- ↑ Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia: the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney: John Sands, [1886) Map 14.
- ↑ "Oxley County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- ↑ County of Oxley, New South Wales. Department of Lands 1922.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
- ↑ Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.