Description
Boomi is a town in north western New South Wales, Australia.
Boomi is a town in north western New South Wales, Australia. The town is in the Moree Plains Shire local government area, 728 kilometres (452 mi) north west of the state capital, Sydney, on the border on the New South Wales side of the MacIntyre River. Boomi is west of the Queensland town of Goondiwindi andnorth of Moree in New South Wales. At the 2016 census, Boomi and the surrounding farming area had a population of approximately 200.
History
Gamilaraay (Gamilaroi, Kamilaroi, Comilroy) is a language from South-West Queensland and North-West New South Wales. The Gamilaraay language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Balonne Shire Council, including the towns of Dirranbandi, Thallon, Talwood and Bungunya as well as the border towns of Mungindi and Boomi extending to Moree, Tamworth and Coonabarabran in NSW.
Weather
The average annual rainfall has been 22 inches (560 mm) but the recordings show that the pattern over the years has not been consistent. The. climate varies from long hot summers, when the temperatures can reach 43 °C (109 °F) and storms begin the summer rain often resulting in floods, to the winter months, which produce light rain and only occasionally result in floods. Cold nights in winter can go down to 0 °C (32 °F) causing frequent frosts, but the days are pleasant on the whole. Spring and autumn are short.
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Population: 101-1000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 1086.617 km2
Elevation: 51-200 metres
Town elevation: 184 m
Population number: 201
Local Government Area: Moree Plains Shire Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Boomi, New South Wales