Yancowinna County is one of the 141
Cadastral divisions of New South Wales.
The county contains the city of
Broken Hill
Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...
(in Picton Parish) and village of
Silverton (in Umberumberka Parish). The County also has the hamlets of
Wallarunga/The Pinnacles and
Burns Burns may refer to:
* Burn, an injury (plural)
People:
* Burns (surname), includes list of people and characters
Business:
* Burns London, a British guitar maker
Places:
;In the United States
* Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle ...
; and the
ghost towns of
Tarrawingee and
Purnamoota
Purnamoota is a rural locality, cattle station and ghost town of the Unincorporated Far West and a civil parish of Yancowinna County, and is located about 23 kilometers north of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Purnamoota is located at 31 ...
.
Some New South Wales industrial relations laws have excluded the county of Yancowinna. The county is also the only part of New South Wales which is in the same time zone as
South Australia (
UTC+09:30 rather than
UTC+10:00).
The name Yancowinna is believed to be derived from a local
Aboriginal
Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to:
*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
*One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
word and is also the name of the location within the county of Yancowinna Glen.
Parishes
A full list of parishes found within this county; their current
LGA
LaGuardia Airport is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering , the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. ...
and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
References
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Counties of New South Wales