Quambone
Quambone | |
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  Quambone | |
| Coordinates: 30°55′57″S 147°52′41″E / 30.93250°S 147.87806°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | New South Wales |
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| Population | |
| • Total | 247 (2011 census)[2] |
| Postcode | 2831 |
Quambone is a locality in New South Wales, Australia. Quambone is in the Coonamble Shire local government area, 591 kilometres (367 mi) north west of the state capital, Sydney and 56 kilometres (35 mi) west of Coonamble.
The locality is centered at the junction of roads to Warren, Coonamble and Carinda. At the 2011 census, Quambone and the surrounding area had a population of 247.[2]
Quambone is known as the gateway to the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve.
The name derives from a Ngiyampaa word, kuwaympuyan meaning 'having blood'.[3]
It has a hotel/motel, general store and swimming pool,[4] and a public school. It has regular Catholic and Anglican church services. The Quambone Library (operated by the Coonamble Shire) is famously referred to as the smallest library in New South Wales [5]
Doug Moppett, a long-term member of the Parliament of New South Wales, lived at Quambone.
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Quambone (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Quambone (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ Donaldson 1984, p. 32.
- ^ "Visit Coonamble Shire:Quambone". Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
- ^ "Library Services - Coonamble Shire".
- Donaldson, Tamsin (1984). "What's in a name? An etymological view of land, language and social identification from central western New South Wales" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 8 (1): 21–44.
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