Tirlta Station

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Tirlta Station is a Cattle station 100 km northeast of Broken Hill.[1] [2]

Tirlta is at 31º 14' 35.7" S 142º 05' 18.93" E,[3] making it one of the westernmost homesteads in New South Wales. The nearest ocean is the Southern Ocean about 420 km west-southwest of Tirlta. The station has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[4] The station is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[5] The nearest more populous place is the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales which is 100 km away.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Emma Brown, Australian farming families The NewCastle Herald, May 4, 2015.
  2. ^ Heavy rains at Tirlta Station 18 May 2007 .
  3. ^ Tirlta - NSW at OzExplore.com.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC..
  6. ^ Map of Tirlta, NSW.