King Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales, Australia.Map of Eelyn County.
The parish is located at near Tibooburra. The geography of Stewart is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country.
History The parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali and Malyangaba peopleAboriginal Heritage Corner Country History & Heritage . and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196. Aboriginal peoples.David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
April 1529 Spain and Portugal divided the world between themselves with the Treaty of Zaragoza, their dividing line passed through the parish.
Charles Sturt passed by the parish during 1845, and camped at Preservation Creek to the north for six months.
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.The Burke and Wills Expedition .
Gold was discovered nearby in the Albert Goldfield in 1880.THE ALBERT GOLD-FIELDS. The Sydney Morning Herald Mon 18 Aug page 8. In June 1902 a large meteorite landed at nearby Mt Brown.Ramdohr, P. (1973). The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorite. Temperatures in the area can reach 50 °C.
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