Mount Blackwood, New South Wales located at 29°48′37″S 141°31′10″E, is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales. located at 30°04′42″S 142°45′50″E, east of the Silver City Highway . 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 nearest town is Tibooburra to the northwest, which is on the Silver City Highway and it lies south of the Sturt National Park.
History The Parish is on the traditional lands of the WadigaliAboriginal Heritage , Corner Country History & Heritage. and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,Norman Barnett Tindale, (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 area, camping for six months at nearby Preservation Creek, in 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition .
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.The Burke and Wills Expedition .
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.
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