Gnalta is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.Historic map of Yungnulgra County. Gnalta Station is a homestead on the Mount Wright Creek in northwest New South Wales, about 550 km northeast of Adelaide, South Australia and 890 km northwest of Sydney, Australia.
History Silicified trilobites fossils from the early middle Cambrian have been found at Gnalta.
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.
The station was at one time owned by Goldsbrough Mort and Company.
Geography Gnalta is about 183m above sea level.Map of Gnalta, NSW. although Gnalta Peak reaches about 270m above sea level. Map of Gnalta Peak, NSW. The Parish has an arid landscape. and the nearest town is Whitecliffs.
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. .
The nearest town is the village of White Cliffs, New South Wales.
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