Ullollie, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
Geography The Parish an arid landscape. The nearest town is Whitecliffs several km to the north west.
Ullollie is at 31°03′02″S 143°27′09″E in Central Darling Shire.
Climate The parish has extremely hot summers and mild winters. Summers would usually exceed 36 °C. Winters are usually around 17 °C. The annual average rainfall is which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),. (direct: Final Revised Paper) is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometre.NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC. .
History The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu.David R Horton, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). 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.
In 1838 Thomas Mitchell (explorer) travelled down the nearby Darling River.
Charles Sturt passed through the Wandjiwalgu lands during 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition .
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.The Burke and Wills Expedition .
Opal was discovered in the area in the late 19th century.
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