Sturt Parish is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales,/ Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, , located at .
Geography The Geography, of Sturt is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.Olive Downs campground.
History The Parish is on the traditional lands of the WadigaliAboriginal 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.
Charles Sturt camped at nearby Preservation CreekThe Sydney Morning Herald Sat 5 Mar 1932, Page 9. (Mount Poole) for six months during 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition . and in 1861 the Burke and Wills 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.
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