Parish of Albert

Map of Yantara County, New South Wales,^[1]

Albert Parish, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Yantara County near Milparinka, New South Wales.

The parish is on the Silver City Highway where the road meets . The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).^[2]

Gold was discovered there,^[3] and for a while a village at Albert had a population of 900. but the gold soon ran out and life in the parish is very hard as it is arid and has no reliable fresh water.^[4]

References[]

^ John Sands, The New atlas of Australia Sydney : J. Sands, [1886]
^ 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)
^ THE ALBERT GOLD-FIELDS. The Sydney Morning Herald. Mon 18 Aug. p. 8.
^ "Milparinka - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

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[1] John Sands, The New atlas of Australia Sydney : J. Sands, [1886]

[Peel-2] 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)

[3] THE ALBERT GOLD-FIELDS. The Sydney Morning Herald. Mon 18 Aug. p. 8.

[4] "Milparinka - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

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Parish of Albert

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