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ABOUT Cooma
Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located
120 km south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway, on
the way to the Australian Alps. It is also on the Snowy Mountains Highway,
connecting Bega with the Riverina. The town has a population of
approximately 7,000.
Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region and on the edge of the Snowy
Mountains. It is 800 m, above sea level.
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. |
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