Carabost
town in New South Wales, Australia
Carabost is a foresting community in the southeast part of the Riverina. It is about 16 kilometres north west of Rosewood and 22 kilometres southeast of Kyeamba.
Carabost is on the Tumbarumba Road near the location of the Carabost National Forest – a large Pine Plantation in the area. The only facilities available in the area, other than the Carabost Town Hall built in 1927, and a Fire Brigade Shed, is a public telephone box and a post box – both at the same location as the district emergency gathering point which is used in the case of forest fire or similar emergency.
Carabost is the Gaelic form of Carbost on the Scottish island of Skye and means Copse farm.
Carabost Post Office opened on 1 March 1879, and it closed on 4 March 1897. It then reopened on 1 January 1915 and was closed once again on 27 January 1968
Gold was known to exist in the area, from at least the late 1880s, but Carabost was not as well known for gold, as the neighbouring mining areas of Humula and Tumbarumba. During the 1920s, parts of the locality of Carabost were mined for gold by dredging.
Climate
Being the first of the higher ground on the South West Slopes in a westerly wind, the region experiences cool maximum temperatures relative to its altitude (particularly in winter), averaging just 9.1 °C (48.4 °F) in July. The site was located in a pine plantation at 580 metres (1,900 ft) above sea level, operated from 1938 until 1969 by the Carabost Forest Headquarters.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5037351. Authority coordinates are -35.598, 147.718. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1879, 1897 and 1915.
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