Boonoo Boonoo is a locality in

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Location

Boonoo Boonoo is located within the

Tenterfield Shire Tenterfield Shire is a local government area located in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is situated adjacent to the New England Highway. The mayor of the Tenterfield Shire Council is Cr. Bronwyn Petrie, an una ...

and lies approximately 26 kilometres north of

Tenterfield Tenterfield is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia. At the , Tenterfield had a population of 4,066. Tenterfield's proximity to many regional centres and its position on the route between Sydney and Brisbane led to its development as a ...

along the Mount Lindesay Road. The locality is approximately 10 kilometres south-east of the Queensland-New South Wales border. Nearby national parks include

Bald Rock National Park Bald Rock National Park is a national park in northern New South Wales, Australia, just north of Tenterfield on the Queensland border. The border passes over the rock on the Western side. On the other side of the border national park continues ...

and Basket Swamp National Park.

Geography

The

etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

of ''Boonoo Boonoo'' is Aboriginal for "poor country with no animals to provide food" and is pronounced 'bunna bunoo'. The local

geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...

is dominated by prominent

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

inselbergs An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...

and mountains, a fine example being that of the nearby Bald Rock, the largest granite inselberg in Australia, which is located within

. The average elevation throughout the area differs from below 600 metres to over 1,100 metres. The main geographic features in the locality are Boonoo Boonoo National Park,

Boonoo Boonoo River Boonoo Boonoo River, a watercourse of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands district of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features Boonoo Boonoo River rises on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Boono ...

and Falls, Basket Swamp National Park, Bald Rock National Park and Mount Lindesay Road.

History

Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

was discovered in the district in 1858,Halliday, Ken, Call of the Highlands, Southern Cross Printery, Toowoomba, 1988. and the economy today is mainly beef cattle breeding and superfine wool production through the breeding of

Merino sheep The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool. It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed ...

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