Cooma

Cooma
Court House Cooma
State :  Australia State : New South Wales
Coordinates : 36 ° 14 ′  S , 149 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 14 ′  S , 149 ° 8 ′  E Height : 800  m
Residents : 6,379 (2016)
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) Postal code : 2630 LGA : Cooma-Monaro Shire
Cooma

Cooma is a city in southern New South Wales in Australia . It is located 115 km south of the capital Canberra on the Murrumbidgee River and 397 km southwest of Sydney . Cooma is considered the gateway to the Snowy Mountains and can be reached via the Monaro Highway and the Snowy Mountains Highway . The name Cooma comes from the Aborigines and means big lake (large lake) or open country (open country).

history

Monument to Aviation Pioneers in Cooma

Bronze of the Nanny Goat (mother goat) on the Nanny Goat Hill Lookout in Cooma

Cooma was named a city in 1879. Cooma was accessible by rail from Sydney from 1889. This railway line was closed in 1986. In 1949 the company Snowy Mountains System settled down, creating jobs and Cooma grew continuously.

Cooma is often visited by winter sports tourists heading to the Snowy Mountains during the winter months.

Locality

There is a secondary school in Cooma, Monaro High School and several elementary schools, several radio stations and two newspapers. Cooma has one airport, Cooma - Snowy Mountains Airport , which is 15 kilometers away. Cooma can be reached by buses from Canberra and the Bega Valley.

Climate table

Cooma
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     60   27 11     48   27 11     53   24 8th     38   20th 4th     36   16 1     36   12 -1     30th   11 -3     29   13 -2     38   16 1     47   19th 4th     55   22nd 7th     55   25th 9 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1973–2002, 1904–2002

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Cooma Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 26.8 26.7 23.8 19.5 15.5 12.0 11.3 13.3 16.1 19.3 22.0 25.0 O 19.2 Min. Temperature (° C) 10.5 10.5 8.2 4.0 1.3 −1.3 −2.8 −1.7 1.3 3.8 6.6 8.9 O 4.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 60.3 47.7 53.3 38.1 35.5 35.7 29.8 29.2 38.4 46.9 54.8 54.9 Σ 524.6 Rainy days ( d ) 7.1 6.6 6.6 5.9 6.7 7.3 7.1 7.0 8.3 8.8 8.5 7.5 Σ 87.4 Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1973–2002, 1904–2002

Trivia

The Mars crater " Cooma " is named after the city .

sons and daughters of the town

• Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000), poet and essayist
• Patrick Power (born 1942), Roman Catholic bishop
• Jacqueline Lawrence (* 1982), kayak slalom driver
• Ben Sim (* 1985), cross-country skier
• Torah Bright (* 1986), snowboarder
• Scott Kneller (* 1989), freestyle skier

Web links

Commons : Cooma, New South Wales  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Cooma ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
2. ↑ information on cooma.com.au , accessed 23 April 2010
3. ↑ Information on nswrail.net , accessed on April 23, 2010
4. ↑ Monaro High School ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 23, 2010 
5. ↑ Bureau of Meteorology, Australia: Klimeinformationen Cooma. World Meteorological Organization, accessed April 6, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Cooma Crater in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (English)