Quambone is a locality in

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, Australia. Quambone is in the

Coonamble Shire Coonamble Shire is a local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Castlereagh Highway and the Castlereagh River. Coonamble Shire includes the towns of Coonamble, Gulargambone ...

local government area, north west of the state capital, Sydney and west of

Coonamble Coonamble is a town on the central-western plains of New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Castlereagh Highway north-west of Gilgandra. At the 2016 census, Coonamble had a population of 2,750. It is the regional hub for wheat growing and ...

. The locality is centred at the junction of roads to

Warren A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...

, Coonamble and

Carinda Carinda is a town in the far north of New South Wales, Australia. The town is in the Walgett Shire local government area. In 2016, the town had a population of 158. The name of the town is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'you carry'. ...

. At the , Quambone and the surrounding area had a population of 247. The name derives from a

Ngiyampaa The Ngiyampaa, also known as the Ngemba, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of New South Wales. The generic name refers to an aggregation of three groups, the Ngiyampaa, the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan, and the Ngiyampaa Weilwan, resp ...

word, ''kuwaympuyan'' meaning 'having blood'. It has a hotel/motel, general store and swimming pool,Visit Coonamble Shire:Quambone
/ref> and a public school. It has regular Catholic and Anglican church services.

Doug Moppett Douglas Frederick Moppett (14 May 1940 – 18 June 2002) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party, later National Party, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1991 up until 2002. H ...

, a long-term member of the Parliament of New South Wales, lived at Quambone.

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* Towns in New South Wales {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub