Moolort Parish (Irrara County), New South Wales

Moolort Parish is a remote civil Parish, of Irrara County,[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2] Moortlort is on te Queensland-New South Wales border just east of Hungerford, Queensland.

Geography

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

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Cattle, and sheep. The parish has no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Hungerford, Queensland to the west.

Moolort Parish will be the site of a Total Solar Eclipse on 22 July 2028.[4]

See also

References
  1. County of Irrara, Western Division, Land District of Bourke, Darling Shire / compiled, drawn & printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney, N.S.W (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 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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