Kerndombie, New South Wales

Kerndombie is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

Geography

Kerndombie located at 30°57′19″S 142°49′25″E is between Mutawintji National Park and the nearest town, Whitecliffs to the south east. The Parish has an arid landscape.

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 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) 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),.[3] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[4]

References
  1. "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
  3. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  4. NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC. Archived 9 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine.


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