Cooma, New South Wales

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colspan="2" class="hiddenStructure" | colspan="2" style="line-height: 1.2; border-bottom: 1px solid #CEDEFF;" | Location of Cooma in New South Wales (red) |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Postcode || 2630 |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | State || New South Wales, Australia |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Latitude and Longitude || [36°13′S 149°07′E] |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Local Government Area || Cooma-Monaro Shire |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | State Electorate || Electoral district of Monaro |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Federal Electorate || Division of Eden-Monaro |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | First explored || 1823 by Capt J.M. Currie |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | First surveyed || 1849 |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Proclaimed or gazetted as a town|| |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Proclaimed a municipality|| |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Declared a city|| |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Historic population counts || |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Population 2001 census || |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | '''Population – current estimate|| 8,000 |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Highway(s) || Monaro Highway, Snowy Mountains Highway |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | River(s) || |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Railway link (date) || 1889 (Closed) |} 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. Image:AS Cooma Southern Cloud.jpg|Aviation Pioneers' Memorial Image:Court House Cooma.jpg|Court house Actresses Carmen Duncan and Paula Duncan, poet and essayist A. D. Hope, poet John Tranter and politician John Tierney were all born in Cooma. Contents 1 Radio Stations 2 Newspaper 3 Transport 4 See also Radio Stations 2XL 918 AM (commercial) Snow FM 97.7 FM (commercial) JJJ 100.1 FM ABC South-East 810 AM/1602 AM Radio National 95.3 FM/100.9 FM Classic FM 99.3 Monaro FM 90.5 (community) Racing Radio 96.9 FM Note: translators for 2XL and Snow FM, as well as some ABC services, are in place throughout the Snowy Mountains. Newspaper Regional newspaper published in Cooma is the [Cooma Monaro Express] Transport Cooma is serviced by Snowy Mountains Airport 15 kilometres from the CBD. See also Cooma Correctional Centre   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: