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Nimmitabel is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Cooma-Monaro Shire local government area. At the 2006 census, Nimmitabel had a population of 237.〔 The town is south of Cooma and west of Bega. Nimmitabel is on a stretch of highway shared between the Snowy Mountains Highway (HWY B72) and the Monaro Highway (HWY B23). 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: Nimmitybelle, Nimithybale, Nimitybell, Nimity Belle and Nimmitabel. The area around Nimmitabel has the only true chernozem soil in Australia, a very rich, fertile and dark colored soil.〔KG McQueen "The Tertiary Geology And Geomorphology Of The Monaro: The Perspective In 1994" () Centre For Australian Regolith Studies, Canberra 1994〕 ==History== * 1840 Locals started calling the village Nimoitebool * 1845 Appears on Townsend's map as Nimmitabel * 1858 Church was built * 1857 Renewal of licence for hotel * 1858 Post office arrives * 1861 Bell's Store * 1863 Separate Courthouse built * 1865 Geldmacher builds windmill * 1866 Cameron's Store opens * 1869 Nimmitabel Public School opens * 1912 Railway arrives * 1921 Area's first saw-mill opens * 1959 Used as location for multi-Oscar nominated film ''The Sundowners''〔("America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies" - Google Books ), John Howard Reid, pub. Lulu.com, March 2006. ISBN 9781411678774, p.241〕 * 1986 Railway closes 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「Nimmitabel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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