Yantabulla, New South Wales Explained

Type:town
Yantabulla
State:nsw
Coordinates:-29.3483°N 145.0014°W
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pop:28
Postcode:2840
Lga:Bourke Shire
Stategov:Barwon
Fedgov:Parkes

Yantabulla, New South Wales is a ghost town in far north west New South Wales, Australia. It is on the border of New South Wales and Queensland.

The town is on the traditional lands of the Paaruntyi people.[1]

The village is adjacent to the Yantabulla Swamp,[2] part of the Ramsar listed Currawinya Important Bird Area.

Yantabulla has been noted as being the future location of the rare double-sighting of solar eclipses within short intervals of one another,[3] and should experience three eclipses before 2040.

The town is in Irrara County,[4] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Parundji (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. . p198.
  2. http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=288729&cmd=sp Yantabulla map
  3. https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21726680-new-zealanders-will-do-pretty-well-too-if-you-want-see-less-sun-become-australian If you want to see less of the sun, become an Australian
  4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233879950/view County of Irrara, Western Division, Land District of Bourke, Darling Shire / compiled, drawn & printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney, N.S.W