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Cobar is a town in central western New South Wales, Australia. The town is northwest of the state capital, Sydney. It is at the crossroads of the Kidman Way (to Queensland) and Barrier Highway (to South Australia). The town and the local government area, the Cobar Shire, are on the eastern edge of the outback. At the 2011 census, Cobar had a population of 3,817, out of Cobar Shire's population of about 4,700. The Shire has an area of —about two-thirds the size of Tasmania.〔http://www.cobar.nsw.gov.au/ Retrieved 07-01-2010〕 ==History== The name ''Cobar'' is derived from the Aboriginal Ngiyampaa word for copper ''Kuparr'', ''Gubarr'' or ''Cuburra'', meaning 'red earth' or 'burnt earth', the ochre used in making body paint for Corroborees. The name also represents an Aboriginal attempt to pronounce the word 'copper'. Some of the most significant Aboriginal rock art in NSW is within the shire. The indigenous Ngiyampaa/Wangaapuwan traditions of this diverse bio-region are best represented in the rock art of Mount Grenfell, 40 km west of Cobar. Over 1,300 depictions of humans, hand stencils and animals are at this site. Pastoralists began to settle the area in the mid-1860s and copper was discovered by Papa Cornish in the 1870s. Papa Cornish rescued a party of Aboriginal trackers from near fate who in-turn guided him to Australia's largest copper deposit as a thankyou gesture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cobar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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