Nantomoko is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far northwest New South Wales./ Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, , located at
Geography The geography of the parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (hot desert). (direct: Final Revised Paper) The county is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150 km2 and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.
The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and the parish lies south of the Sturt National Park.Olive Downs campground. There is also a small settlement at Cameron's Corner just over the Queensland Border.
History The parish is on the traditional lands of the WadigaliAboriginal Heritage , Corner Country History & Heritage]. and to some 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.
Charles Sturt passed through the parish during 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition . and In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east,The Burke and Wills Expedition . through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area.NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s, and the miners were followed by pastoral farming enterprises.
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