Goorpooka, New South Wales Explained

Goorpooka, 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.[1]

The parish has an arid landscape and the nearest town is Whitecliffs. 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 about 249.7mm which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),.[2] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233961755/view Historic map of Yungnulgra County
  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 . 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . 1027-5606. free . (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  3. https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=SEDAC_POP NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC.