Carabost is a foresting community in the southeast part of the Riverina. It is about 16 kilometres north west of Rosewood and 22 kilometres southeast of Kyeamba.
| Carabost New South Wales | |||||||||
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 Carabost Hall, 2020 | |||||||||
  Carabost | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°36′S 147°43′E / 35.600°S 147.717°E | ||||||||
| Population | 67 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2650 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 551 m (1,808 ft) | ||||||||
| Location |
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| County | Wynyard | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Albury | ||||||||
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Carabost is on the Tumbarumba Road near the location of the Carabost National Forest – a large Pine Plantation in the area. The only facilities available in the area, other than the Carabost Town Hall built in 1927, and a Fire Brigade Shed, is a public telephone box and a post box – both at the same location as the district emergency gathering point which is used in the case of forest fire or similar emergency.
Carabost is the Gaelic form of Carbost on the Scottish island of Skye and means Copse farm.[3]
Carabost Post Office opened on 1 March 1879, and it closed on 4 March 1897. It then reopened on 1 January 1915 and was closed once again on 27 January 1968[4]
Gold was known to exist in the area, from at least the late 1880s,[5] but Carabost was not as well known for gold, as the neighbouring mining areas of Humula and Tumbarumba. During the 1920s, parts of the locality of Carabost were mined for gold by dredging.[6]
Climate
editBeing the first of the higher ground on the South West Slopes in a westerly wind, the region experiences cool maximum temperatures relative to its altitude (particularly in winter), averaging just 9.1 °C (48.4 °F) in July. The site was located in a pine plantation at 580 metres (1,900 ft) above sea level, operated from 1938 until 1969 by the Carabost Forest Headquarters.
| Climate data for Carabost Forest Headquarters (1938–1969, rainfall 1938–1997); 580 m AMSL; 35.65° S, 147.80° E | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 28.0 (82.4) |
27.2 (81.0) |
24.1 (75.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
9.1 (48.4) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.3 (57.7) |
18.0 (64.4) |
21.1 (70.0) |
25.4 (77.7) |
18.4 (65.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 11.0 (51.8) |
11.2 (52.2) |
9.0 (48.2) |
5.6 (42.1) |
3.2 (37.8) |
1.7 (35.1) |
0.2 (32.4) |
1.7 (35.1) |
3.2 (37.8) |
5.5 (41.9) |
7.0 (44.6) |
9.0 (48.2) |
5.7 (42.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 56.4 (2.22) |
48.6 (1.91) |
61.2 (2.41) |
72.6 (2.86) |
96.4 (3.80) |
92.8 (3.65) |
112.5 (4.43) |
107.6 (4.24) |
84.4 (3.32) |
100.1 (3.94) |
70.5 (2.78) |
60.1 (2.37) |
966.5 (38.05) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 5.1 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 7.0 | 9.7 | 10.7 | 12.6 | 13.0 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 7.8 | 6.2 | 102.4 |
| Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Carabost Forest Headquarters | |||||||||||||
Notes and references
edit- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Carabost (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine[dead link]
- ^ Scottish Parliament, Place Names (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2007, retrieved 30 June 2009
- ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 26 March 2021
- ^ "TUMBARUMBA". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW : 1871–1938). 13 May 1887. p. 17. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "CARABOST DREDGING". Daily Express (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1919 – 1930). 5 March 1924. p. 4. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
External links
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