Settlement Type: | Parish |
Pushpin Map: | New South Wales |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New South Wales, Australia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New South Wales |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Yantara County |
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 Salt Lake, New South Wales.The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[1]
Gold was discovered there,[2] 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.[3]