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Peak Hill is a town in Parkes Shire in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2021 census , Peak Hill had a population of 768. [ 1 ] It is located on the Newell Highway and the Parkes to Narromine railway line .
Central New South Wales; Riverina; The Murray; Outback New South Wales; This classification subdivides the most commonly accepted notion of "The Riverina" into two separate regions, "Riverina" and "The Murray". The "Blue Mountains" is also included as it own distinct region, which is usually considered a district of the state capital "Sydney".
In 1846 New South Wales was divided into settled districts, intermediate districts and unsettled districts. [5] In 1861 the system of settled and unsettled districts were abolished with the Crown Lands Acts , [ 6 ] while new types of districts called first and second class settled districts, as well as town land and suburban land came into being.
Satellite photo of the Sydney (centre) area at night, facing west by northwest. Regional NSW areas can be seen on this map such as Wollongong in the Illawarra region can be seen at the bottom left, Bowral and Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands region can be seen in the far left, as well as Gosford in the Central Coast region is visible at the far right.
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is elected from single-member electorates called districts, returning 93 members since the 1999 election. Prior to 1927 some districts returned multiple members, including 1920-1927 when all districts returned three, four or five members.
The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. It is subdivided into the Dark Peak, moorland dominated by gritstone, and the White Peak, a limestone area with valleys and ...
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are enclaves within the state.
Route of the Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth Crossing of 1813 The typical blue haze in the Jamison Valley behind the Three Sisters, New South Wales, Australia. Between 1798 and 1813, many people explored various parts of the mountains, from the Bilpin Ridge to the southern regions, today the site of the Kanangra-Boyd National Park. Still, they ...