Wanganella, New South Wales
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Wanganella is a village on the Billabong Creek in New South Wales, Australia, on the Cobb Highway north of Deniliquin and within the Conargo Shire Council local government area.
[edit] History
Land was subdivided at Wanganella and in 1864 allotments were sold.
A traveller passing through Wanganella in mid-1865 described the township as consisting “of two public houses, a blacksmith’s shop, and a shoemaker’s shop”; he also stated that “a neat bridge” had been erected over Billabong Creek.[1] Another report from 1865 stated there were twenty-five persons living at Wanganella, which had two inns, two stores and two butchers' shops.[2]
[edit] Climate
Climate records have been kept for Wanganella since 1867. Temperature extremes are quite marked over the full year: the average maximum temperature in February is 31.6 degrees Celsius and the average minimum temperature in July is 3.6 degrees C. The average annual rainfall at Wanganella is 366.3 mm (14.4 inches).[3]
[edit] References
- ^ ’A Tour in the Riverine District’ (letter to the editor), Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 1865, p. 2.
- ^ 'The Western Riverina: A History of Its Development' by James Jervis (Royal Australian Historical Society Journal and Proceedings Vol. XXXVIII 1952), p. 185 (citing Sydney Morning Herald, 4 November 1865).
- ^ Wanganella ("Zara" station) climate averages, Bureau of Meteorology.
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