Description
Yaouk is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.
Yaouk is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia. It lies in open grassland valleys surrounded by mountains on both sides of the Murrumbidgee River, downstream from and east of the Tantangara Dam, north of Adaminaby, east of the Kosciuszko National Park and south of the Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory, but separated from it by the mountainous Scabby Range. It is about 110 km south of Canberra and about 75 km northwest of Cooma. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 25.
History
Yaouk is named after the Yaouk Run, a 4,096 hectare "squatter's run" first held by Henry Hall in 1838.
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Population: 1-100
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 260.034 km2
Elevation: 1001-1300 metres
Town elevation: 1116 m
Population number: 25
Local Government Area: Snowy Monaro Regional Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Yaouk, New South Wales