Parish of Paradise, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Evelyn County, New South Wales in far northwest New South Wales. Map of the County of Evelyn : Western Division. located at on the border with South Australia.
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 nearest town is Tibooburra to the north, 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.
When James Cook claimed New South Wales for Great Britain from Possession Island."Secret Instructions to Lieutenant Cook 30 July 1768 he claimed the territory up to the 141st meridian east making the Parish on the border of that claim.
Charles Sturt passed to the west of the parish and camped for six months at nearby Preservation Creek, during 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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