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Parish of Peppora

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Peppora is a station in west New South Wales about 440 km east-northeast of Adelaide, and about 800 km west of Sydney. Peppora is at an altitude of approximately 57m. Peppora is one of the westernmost homesteads in New South Wales.[1] Peppora Stations is the traditional land of the Barkindji people.[2]

Mootwingee County from Johns Sands 1886 map.[3]

The civil parish of Peppora is located at 30°56′42″S 142°02′07″E. in Mootwingee County and is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[4] The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (hot desert).[5]

References

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  1. ^ Peppora, NSW.
  2. ^ History of Tolarno.
  3. ^ from John Sands, Atlas of Australia 1886.
  4. ^ NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC.
  5. ^ 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)