Bathurst, New South Wales

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Bathurst
Bathurst skyline.jpg
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of New South Wales.svg New South Wales
Founded : 1815
Coordinates : 33 ° 25 ′  S , 149 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 25 ′  S , 149 ° 34 ′  E
Height : 670  m
Residents : 33,587 (2016)
Time zone : UTC + 10
Postal code : 2795
LGA : Bathurst Regional Council
Website :
Bathurst, New South Wales
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Bathurst [ˈbæθəst] is a city in the Australian state of New South Wales and is located about 200 km west of Sydney on the Macquarie River at an altitude of about 670 m.

Locality

Bathurst was founded in 1815 and is the oldest inland city in Australia . It is named after Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst . The city is one of the four main locations of Charles Sturt University . Bathurst is also the Australian center for touring car racing with the Mt. Panorama Racing Circuit .

Bathurst has a small airport and is on an important main road to Sydney . The city can also be reached by rail on the Sydney- Orange route .

Bathurst is the center and administrative seat of the Bathurst Region administrative area .

The Japanese city ​​of Ōkuma has been its sister city since March 1991 .

Wiradjuri Aborigines

The area of Bathurst was originally the ancestral land of the Wiradjuri - Aborigines . They resisted European colonization so fiercely that the Governor Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane declared martial law. These violent clashes went down in Australian history as the Bathurst Wars . The leader of the Aboriginal Windradyne , who led the resistance in the 1820s, became famous.

Climate table

Bathurst
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1908–2002
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Bathurst
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 27.7 27.1 24.5 19.9 15.5 12.0 11.1 12.8 16.2 19.7 23.0 26.2 O 19.6
Min. Temperature (° C) 13.3 13.3 10.8 6.7 3.5 1.6 0.6 1.3 3.5 6.2 8.8 11.6 O 6.7
Precipitation ( mm ) 69.3 55.3 50.7 43.6 43.1 43.9 49.2 50.1 46.4 61.2 58.0 62.5 Σ 633.3
Rainy days ( d ) 7.4 6.7 6.1 6.4 8.4 9.9 11.1 11.0 9.4 9.3 8.4 7.7 Σ 101.8
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Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1908–2002

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Bathurst, New South Wales  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Bathurst ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Bathurst definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Sister City. Bathurst Regional Council, archived from the original on June 14, 2009 ; accessed on April 3, 2011 .
  4. ^ Bureau of Meteorology, Australia: Bathurst Climate Information. World Meteorological Organization, accessed April 6, 2012 .