Berawinnia Parish (Irrara County), New South Wales

Berawinnia Parish (Irrara County), New South Wales is a remote civil parish, of Irrara County,[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]

Berawinnia Parish is one of the few parts of Irrara County that is unincorporated.

Geography

The topography of the area is flat and arid with a Köppen climate classification of BSh (Hot semi-arid).[3]

Berawinna is on the Paroo River and is on the traditional lands of the Badjiri people.

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly cattle, and sheep.

The Queensland border runs along the northern boundary of the parish (and the County of Irrara) and the parish has no towns though Hungerford, Queensland is just over the border from the parish. A village of Berwinnia was planned and layout as a suburb of Hungerford, but the village never developed. Hungerford remains the nearest settlement.

Berawinna was be a site of the total solar eclipse on 22 July 2018,[4] and will be again on 25 November 2030.

See also

References
  1. County of Irrara, Western Division, Land District of Bourke, Darling Shire / compiled, drawn & printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney, NSW (Department of Lands, Sydney NSW, 1964).
  2. "Irrara 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. Total Solar Eclipse of 2028 Jul 22 .


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