Purnamoota

Purnamoota is a rural locality, cattle station (Purnamoota Station), and ghost town of the Unincorporated Far West and a civil parish of Yancowinna County, and is located about 23 km (14 mi) north of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

Purnamoota is located at 31°35′48″S 141°27′50″E and is at an elevation of approximately 330m above sea level. It has a Köppen climate classification of BWh desert.

In the 1880s Purnamoota was famous for the slugs of almost pure silver found on the surface.

The Purnamoota Creek flows through the parish.

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