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Cooma
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Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 120 kilometres south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway, on the way to the Australian Alps. The town has a population of approximately 8,000.
Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region and on the edge of the Snowy Mountains. It is 800 metres above sea level.
In 1949, the town became the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and grew rapidly. In 1959 the tenth anniversary of the scheme was celebrated with the erection of an avenue of flags representing the 27 nationalities of people working on the scheme.
There is an Aviation Pioneers' Memorial at Cooma with artifacts recovered from the Avro 618 Ten aircraft, "Southern Cloud", that crashed on 21 March 1931 in the Australian Alps' Toolong Mountain range. Its wreck was found on 26 October 1958.
Actresses Carmen Duncan and Paula Duncan, poet and essayist A. D. Hope, and politician John Tierney were all born in Cooma.
Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region and on the edge of the Snowy Mountains. It is 800 metres above sea level.
In 1949, the town became the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and grew rapidly. In 1959 the tenth anniversary of the scheme was celebrated with the erection of an avenue of flags representing the 27 nationalities of people working on the scheme.
There is an Aviation Pioneers' Memorial at Cooma with artifacts recovered from the Avro 618 Ten aircraft, "Southern Cloud", that crashed on 21 March 1931 in the Australian Alps' Toolong Mountain range. Its wreck was found on 26 October 1958.
Actresses Carmen Duncan and Paula Duncan, poet and essayist A. D. Hope, and politician John Tierney were all born in Cooma.
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