Borenore

History

The area now known as Borenore lies on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. The first settler homes in the Borenore district were built in the early 1860s. Borenore soon became a large settlement. The first European settlers adopted the aboriginal name of the area "Bora-Nora". The area would be used by Mitchell as the assembly location for his second, third and fourth expeditions. On his second expedition to the Darling and Bogan Rivers, Michell met the main party there; it had come from Parramatta, under the command of Mitchell's second-in-command, his Assistant Surveyor, James Larmer. The Borenore area was the homeland of a Wirajuri man, Yuranigh, who Mitchell described in his journal as his "guide, companion, counsellor and friend". Yuranigh's main contribution, to Mitchell's fourth expedition, lay in his ability to negotiate with other Aboriginal people, through whose territory they passed, and in his extensive bush lore and knowledge of country, with which he advised Mitchell. In 1836, Mitchell visited the "Little Caves" at the Borenore Caves and collected some bones of extinct animals.

Most-observed species

• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  3,968
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  3,036
• Crimson Rosella

  Platycercus elegans (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  2,778
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  2,646
• Superb Fairywren

  Malurus cyaneus (Ellis, 1782) · Aves
  2,465
• Red Wattlebird

  Anthochaera carunculata (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  2,396
• Pied Currawong

  Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  2,269
• Australian Raven

  Corvus coronoides Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  1,932

Most recent

• M 4.5 — 2026-04-14
  24 km ENE of Canowindra, Australia
• M 4.2 — 2017-04-13
  23 km WSW of Millthorpe, Australia
• M 3.7 — 2008-03-18
  32 km NE of Peak Hill, Australia
• M 4.2 — 2006-10-21
  48 km ESE of Cowra, Australia
• M 2.7 — 2006-06-30
  21 km SSE of Cowra, Australia
• M 2.9 — 2005-02-20
  19 km S of Cowra, Australia