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Encyclopedia > Coolac, New South Wales
Coolac
NSW

Coolac Hotel
Population: 187
Established: 1824
Postcode: 2727
Elevation: 308 m
Location:
LGA: Gundagai Shire Council
County: Harden
State District: Burrinjuck
Federal Division: Coalition
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall
 ? ? 590 mm
23.2 in

Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 187 people.[2] NSW is a three-letter acronym that refers to: New South Wales, a state of the Commonwealth of Australia U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 603 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Coolac, New South... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... km redirects here. ... This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... km redirects here. ... Wagga Wagga (pronounced wogga wogga, informally called Wagga) is a city in New South Wales, Australia. ... km redirects here. ... Jugoing is a village community in the central east part of the Riverina. ... km redirects here. ... Gundagai is a town located along the Murrumbidgee River and Muniong and Yambla Mountain ranges, 390 km south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... Gundagai Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, on the Hume Highway. ... Most of the Western and Central parts of Australia were never divided into counties;  No counties  Has been subdivided into counties Cadastral divisions of Australia refers to the parts of Australia which are divided into the cadastral units of counties, parishes, hundreds, and other divisions for the purposes of land... Location of the county in New South Wales Harden County, New South Wales is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... Burrinjuck is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... A coalition is an alliance among entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The Riverina is a prosperous agricultural region of south-western New South Wales (NSW), Australia. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... Gundagai Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, on the Hume Highway. ...


The place name Coolac is derived from the local Aboriginal name for a plant which was abundant in the area and also from the Aboriginal word meaning "native bear".[3] Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ...


The 11 kilometre section of the Hume Highway at Coolac is one of the last two-lane sections of highway between Sydney and Melbourne. The latest reports from out of office of the ABC and the Federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services state that the new duplicated highway bypass 'alignment' commenced in May 2007 and is expected to be completed by December 2009 - Under AusLink.[4][5][6][7] The Hume is National 31 from Sydney to Albury . ... AusLink is an Australian Government land transport funding program, established in June 2004 and administered by the Department of Transport and Regional Services. ...

Windmill Cottage, Coolac
Windmill Cottage, Coolac

The satirical Bald Archy art competition began in Coolac at the Coolac Festival of Fun, launched by Peter Batey. The home of this competition is now the Museum of the Riverina in Wagga Wagga and it also travels to Sydney and Melbourne for exhibition once Maude the Cockatoo, who is the official judge, selects the winning entries each year. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 777 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2633 × 2032 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 777 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2633 × 2032 pixel, file size: 1. ... The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize. ... Museum of the Riverina at the Civic Centre Museum of the Riverina has two buildings located in Wagga Wagga, One at the Historic Council Chambers at the Wagga Wagga Civic Centre on the corner of Baylis and Morrow Streets and the other is located at the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens... Wagga Wagga New South Wales, Australia, lies on the Murrumbidgee River and is that states largest inland city as well as being an important agricultural, military, educational and transport hub. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people, and 151,920 within the city centre. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...


Coolac Geological Site

The Coolac Geological Site 4km north-east of Coolac, is the best known example in Australia of a substantial ophiolite assemblage. The distinctive rock assemblage over a 130 hectare site provides insights into events in the continental evolution of eastern Australia.[8][9] Ophiolites are sections of the oceanic crust and the subjacent upper mantle that have been uplifted or emplaced to be exposed within continental crustal rocks. ...


External links

  • Coolac bypass
  • Coolac pub

References

  1. ^ Travelmate
  2. ^ www.fallingrain.com Coolac
  3. ^ NSW Geographical Names Board
  4. ^ ABC Riverina NSW 2009 finish date for Hume Highway work
  5. ^ Work begins on bypassing Hume Hwy black spot
  6. ^ AbiGroup - Coolac Bypass, NSW
  7. ^ Coolac bypass construction officially begins Quote: "Mrs Hull said the project has been fully funded by the Australian Government at a cost of $179 million and the 12 kilometre bypass and four-kilometre highway upgrade is due to open in December 2009. "
  8. ^ Australian Government Department Transport and Regional Services, Segment 1.4 Wagga to Yass
  9. ^ for example, abstract of article in GeoScience World Tectonic significance of 400 Ma zircon ages for ophiolitic rocks from the Lachlan fold belt, eastern Australia and an article in the Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales entitled Hydrothermal Ca-Al Silicates in Ophiolitic Rocks near Coolac, N.S.W.
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