West Wyalong

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Emu Creek
The town was renamed Grenfell in 1867 after the Gold Commissioner, John Grenfell, who was murdered by bushrangers.

NRMA, Holiday Guide 13vols, Sydney, 1997-1999, vol.6, p.78.


Jones Hills
Now known as Narriah Mountain, about 45 km west of West Wyalong.

Weatherburn, A.K. George William Evans Explorer, Sydney, 1966, p.58.


Macquaries Range
Oxley's name for the Lacklan Range, about 35km east of Hillston.

Weatherburn, A.K. George William Evans Explorer, Sydney, 1966, p.59.


Main Camp
Now called West Wyalong, about 95km south west of Forbes.

Reed, A.W., Place-names of New South Wales : Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.149.


Matta
Also known as Mount Aiton, it is now called Narriah Mountain, about 45km west of West Wyalong.

Mitchell, Thomas, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales, London : T. & W. Boone, 1839, map.


Mount Aiton
Named, as Cunningham's suggestion, after W.T.Aiton, a botanist at Kew, now called Narriah Mountain, about 45km west of West Wyalong.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18, London, 1820, p.45 and Chart.

Lee, Ida, Early Explorars in Australia, London, 1925, p.220.


Mount Barrow
Named by oxley after John Barrow, the author of There is Southern Africa, now called Mount Mologone, about 45km south of Lake Cargelligo.

Lee, Ida, Early Explorars in Australia, London, 1925, p.234.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18, London, 1820, p.75.


Mount Byng
Now called Mount Bygalore.

Johnson, Richard, The Search for the inland Sea John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828, Melbourne, 2001, p.48.


Mount Caley
Now called Mount Bingar, about 90 km south west of West Wyalong.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18, London, 1820, p.53 and chart.


Narriah Mount
Now called Mount Aiton.

Not in Readers Digest.
Johnson, Richard, The Search for the inland Sea John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828, Melbourne, 2001, p.48.


Regent's Lake
This name was given by John Oxley in 1817. Thomas Mitchell renamed it Cudjallagong in 1836. This evolved into Lake Cargelligo by 1879. About 100 km north west of West Wyalong.

Mitchell, Thomas, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales, London : T. & W. Boone, 1839, vol.2, p.33.


Wallis's Ponds
Named by Oxley after Captain Wallis of the 46th regiment, now called Gum Cowal, a creek roughly parallel with the Macquarie between Coonamble and Nyngan.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18, London, 1820, p.248 and chart.

Sturt, Charles, Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831 : with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales,2vols, London, 1833, vol.1, p.117.