Nimmitabel


Nimmitabel is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council local government area. At the, Nimmitabel had a population of 320.
The town is south of Cooma and west of Bega. Nimmitabel is on a stretch of highway shared between the Snowy Mountains Highway and the Monaro Highway.
It is on the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, at the west of the Monaro Range, and lies west of the Wadbilliga National Park.
Nimmitabel means "the place where many waters start or divide" in the local Aboriginal language. Many various spellings were adopted for the town, including: Nimmytabell, Nimmitabool, Nimmittybel, Nimmitabel, Nimmitybelle, Nimithybale,Nymytable, Nimmitabil, Nimitabille and Nimithy Bell, Nimaty-Bell, Nimmitabel
The area around Nimmitabel has the only true chernozem soil in Australia, a very rich, fertile and dark colored soil.

Climate

Nimmitabel has a cool maritime climate with mild summers and cold, frosty winters, with evenly-spread rainfall throughout the year. Frosts occur regularly during autumn, winter and spring, and occasionally occur even in summer, as on 20 December 1967 when the temperate fell in the morning to. Because of its elevation and southerly latitude, several snowfalls can be expected each year from May to September; occasionally, snow flurries may even occur in March or December.

History