Menamurtee located at 31°04′22″S 143°10′00″E, south of White Cliffs, 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. The nearest town is Whitecliffs a few kilometers to the north.
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 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]
The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu,[4] [5] Aboriginal peoples.[6]
In 1838 Thomas Mitchell (explorer) travelled down the nearby Darling River. Charles Sturt passed through the Wandjiwalgu lands during 1845,[7] In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.[8]
Opal was discovered in the area in the late]] 19th century.