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Car Rental Cooma
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Cooma is located 810 m above sea level and 420 km from Sydney via
Canberra, which is 114 km away. It has a population of around 8 000
people and is still regarded as the main town in the Snowy Mountain
region. BARGAIN WHEELS CAR RENTAL is there to provide hirer cars
at reasonable prices no matter if you require a replacement vehicle
for a few days, or you need a larger car to accommodate friends and
family on holiday.
The town and the region both have Aboriginal names. It is thought that Monaro
was an Aboriginal word meaning 'treeless plains' and that Cooma, originally spelt
'coombah', means either 'big lake' or 'open country'. Take your pick.
The area was first explored by Europeans in 1823 when an expedition led by Captain
Currie and Major Ovens moved south from Lake George searching for good grazing
land. By 1827 the Monaro Plains had been settled as far as Berridale and by 1847
there were enough settlers in the area for a Court of Petty Sessions to be established
at the new settlement of Cooma. Two years earlier a small Gothic Revival church,
Christ Church of England located 2 km south of Cooma on Myalla Road, had been
built. It is the oldest church in the area and one of the oldest buildings in
the Monaro. It was restored in 1960 and still stands today.
Cooma was surveyed in 1849 and the first sales of village lands occurred the
following year. It would probably have remained a small rural township had gold
not been discovered near Kiandra in 1859. The discovery brought boom times to
the area and for the next twelve months the town of Cooma, which was the only
decent sized settlement in the area, was inundated by miners and prospectors.
It has been estimated that over 15 000 people passed through the town in less
than a year.
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