Janefield: YTIB - Tibooburra -> Facing South
Among the settlements of far north-western New South Wales, Tibooburra stands out for its setting in the red-earth expanse of Australia’s Corner Country. This small outback town lies beside Sturt National Park, where open plains and low scrub extend across a sparsely settled borderland near Queensland and South Australia. Its growth was sparked by the Mount Browne gold rush of the 1880s, which brought prospectors to the district and established Tibooburra as a service point. Today it remains a practical base for exploring the park and the wider Corner Country, a region marked by pastoral properties and long distances between settlements.
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