Nowra () is a city in the South Coast region of

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

, Australia. It is located south-southwest of the state capital of Sydney (about

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). As of the 2021 census, Nowra has an estimated population of 22,584. Situated in the southern reaches of the

Sydney basin The Sydney Basin is an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its ...

, Nowra is the

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and commercial centre of the

City of Shoalhaven The City of Shoalhaven is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the South Coast, New South Wales, South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is about south of Sydney. The Princes Highway passes through the a ...

. The region around Nowra is a farming community with a thriving dairy industry and a significant amount of state-owned forest land. It is also an increasingly popular retirement and leisure area for people from

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and Sydney. The naval air station HMAS ''Albatross'' is located about south-west of Nowra.

History

Prior to European arrival, the part of the Nowra region south of the Shoalhaven river was inhabited by the Wandi-Wandandian tribe of the

Yuin The Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, ...

nation, while the region north of Shoalhaven was inhabited by the

Dharawal The Tharawal people and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Yuin language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, scattered along the coasta ...

people. The name Nowra, originally written by Europeans as 'nou-woo-ro' (pronounced Nowa Nowa by the Indigenous Australians of the area), is an Aboriginal word for the

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.Travel: Nowra
, ''

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'', 8 February 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2007. Circa 1824, ex-convict

Mary Reibey Mary Reibey née ''Haydock'' (12 May 177730 May 1855) was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was penal transportation, transported to Australia as a convicts in Australia, convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by he ...

applied for a land grant in the Burrier area, on the southern side of the

Shoalhaven River The Shoalhaven River is a perennial stream, perennial river that rises from the Southern Tablelands and flows into an open mature wind wave, wave dominated estuary#Lagoon-type or bar-built, barrier estuary near Nowra on the South Coast, New Sou ...

. The Nowra township was officially recognised in 1852. Less than ten years later, in 1861, a postal service was established. In 1861, the racehorse

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, which was trained in Nowra by Etienne de Mestre, won the first

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. Nowra was declared a town in 1885Nowra Police Station
". ''NSW Police Regions and History''. Retrieved 29 April 2008 and a city in 1979. Bundanon Homestead

A major landmark in the area is the house

Bundanon Bundanon is a national arts organisation situated near Nowra, City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. It was the home of the painter Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne Boyd, also an artist. The centre was established in 1993 after the Boyds g ...

, which renowned Australian artist

Arthur Boyd Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, ...

and his wife Yvonne donated to the people of Australia in 1993 along with an adjoining property that had been previously owned by Boyd's brother-in-law, the equally famous Australian artist

Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known ...

. Bundanon began as a single-storey weatherboard structure built around 1840. In 1866, a two-storey sandstone house, made of locally quarried stone, was built immediately in front of the original weatherboard house. The sandstone house features timber verandas and is now listed on the

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Heritage listings

Nowra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Pleasant Way: Graham Lodge * 35 West Street:

Meroogal Meroogal is a heritage-listed former residence and now house museum at 35 West Street, Nowra, City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Kenneth Mackenzie and built in 1886 by Kenneth Mackenzie. The property is owned by ...

Geography

Along the north of Nowra is the

, which formerly hosted the Australian National wakeboarding championships and is a popular fishing location. The Nowra Bridge connects it to

North Nowra North Nowra is a suburb of Nowra in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies northwest of Nowra. At the , it had a population of 5,794. There are four schools; a pre-school, a junior school, a special needs school and a stag ...

and

Bomaderry Bomaderry is a suburb in the City of Shoalhaven local government area in New South Wales, Australia. At the , it had a population of 8,718 people. It is on the north shore of the Shoalhaven River, across the river from Nowra, the major town of th ...

. The Shoalhaven River is a

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, although it does not flow into the sea. The Shoalhaven River meets the sea through the

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...

that joins the Shoalhaven and Crookhaven Rivers, which was dug by convicts under the direction of local entrepreneur and pioneer

Alexander Berry Alexander Berry (30 November 1781 – 17 September 1873) was a Scottish-born surgeon, merchant and List of explorers, explorer who was given in 1822 a land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km2) and 100 convicts to establish the first European set ...

Climate

Nowra possesses a

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( Köppen: Cfa), with very warm, wet summers and mild, relatively dry winters. Compared with nearby Wollongong and Kiama which have an

oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen climate classification, Köppen classification represented as ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of co ...

, Nowra has slightly warmer summers due to its inland location, thus qualifying it as

. Average maxima vary from in January to in July, while average minima fluctuate between in January and in July. Annual

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwe ...

is moderately high (averaging ), and is spread across 86.7 precipitation days (over ). Due to its position on the

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side of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

, Nowra experiences a

foehn effect A Foehn, or Föhn (, , , ), is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind in the lee of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windwa ...

, particularly in late winter and spring. The town experiences 99.6 clear days and 127.4 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures have ranged from on 21 December 2019 to on 24 August 2002.

Demographics

According to the 2021 census, Nowra has a population of 22,584. This covers suburbs only south of the

. The population is slightly younger than the state and country as a whole, with an average age of 37 compared to 38 for both Australia and New South Wales. However, the population is bimodally distributed, with a larger percentage of children and the elderly than the state and national averages. 79.7% of the population were born in Australia and 82.1% speak only English at home, both above the state and national averages. Nowra has a lower level of tertiary education than typical for the state and nation. Only 15% of the population of Nowra hold a tertiary qualification, compared to 23.3% of Australia and 23.8% of New South Wales. The top five reported ancestries in Nowra at the 2021 census were Australian (40.9%), English (37.7%), Australian Aboriginal (10%), Irish (9.5%), and Scottish (8.3%). Most (63%) people had both parents born in Australia, higher than the state and national averages. The population of the suburb of Nowra (central Nowra) at the 2021 census was 9,956. The Australian Bureau of statistics also recognises a larger built-up area including suburbs north of the Shoalhaven, North Nowra-Bomaderry, which had a population of 16,098 at the 2021 census.

Economy

Nowra Town Hall was built in 1948 and is in the Central Business District. This district contains many services, including banks, health services and a library. Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre

Nowra has a growing tourist industry, especially in the summer months, when visitors (mostly from Sydney and Canberra) flock to the beaches to enjoy swimming, surfing, fishing, shopping, and relaxing in the restaurants and cafés. Nowra sits in the Shoalhaven region, where there are several vineyards.

Education

Nowra has three public high schools:

Nowra High School Nowra High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in , in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1956, the school enrolled approximately 910 students in 2018, f ...

, Shoalhaven High School and Bomaderry High School. There are also several non-government schools, three of which are religiously affiliated: * Nowra Christian School: a K–12 Christian-based school located in South Nowra * Nowra Anglican College: a K–12 Anglican college in Bomaderry * St John the Evangelist Catholic High School: a Catholic systemic high school on the outskirts of Nowra, affiliated with St Michael's Catholic Primary School in Nowra The district also has an independent school of special assistance. The Shoalhaven River College commenced classes in 2019 and enrols 60 students in years 9–12 in the mainstream curriculum. There are seven public primary schools in the Nowra area: East Nowra Public School, Nowra Public School, Bomaderry Public School, Illaroo Road Public School, North Nowra Public School, Nowra Hill Public School, and Terara Public School. The

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

has a campus in Nowra, and there is a campus of TAFE NSW Illawarra Institute in Bomaderry.

Health

There are two hospitals in Nowra: the

Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital The Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital often shortened to Shoalhaven Hospital (abbreviated SDMH) is a public hospital serving the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Shoalhaven River from the N ...

, which is a hub for

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services, and Nowra Private Hospital.

Media

Nowra is served by various radio stations: *

ABC Illawarra ABC Illawarra is an ABC Local Radio station based in Wollongong and broadcasting to the Illawarra and the Southern Highlands regions in New South Wales, Australia. This includes the towns of Nowra, Shellharbour, Kiama, and Bowral. The statio ...

(Regional) *

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(Commercial) *

i98FM i98FM (ACMA callsign: 2WIN) is a commercial radio station broadcasting on the FM band to the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It is owned by WIN Corporation, the parent company of WIN Television. History The station was born as ...

(Commercial) * Triple U FM (Community) *

2ST 2ST is a commercial radio station that commenced broadcasting in 1972. It is owned by ARN. 2ST was an AM radio station serving the Shoalhaven and Southern Tablelands regions of New South Wales, Australia, broadcasting on the frequency 91.7 FM ...

(Community) *Power FM (Community) Nowra also receives 5 free-to-air television channels from Knights Hill, commercial channels

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and

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, and public broadcasters ABC and SBS. Due to

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from

Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area ...

in the Shoalhaven area via Knights Hill, a translator site at Cambewarra Mountain in Nowra North is an alternative source of television reception and assists those affected by the Newcastle ducting. Local newspapers is served by ''

The Shoalhaven and Nowra News ''The Shoalhaven and Nowra News'' is an English language newspaper published in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. It has previously been titled the ''Shoalhaven News'' and ''The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser'' . History ...

'' and ''South Coast Register''.

Sports

The four major codes of football in Australia are all popular in the Nowra area.

Rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

was traditionally represented by the

Nowra Warriors The Nowra Warriors are an Australian rugby league football team based in Nowra, a coastal town of the South Coast region. The club is a part of Country Rugby League and previously competed in the South Coast first grade competition since its i ...

and

Bomaderry Swamp Rats South Coast Group 7 Rugby League (or Group 7 Rugby League for simplicity) is the divisional boundary drawn from the Southern Illawarra and South Coast regions (from the suburb of Warilla south to Ulladulla) of New South Wales, Australia and is ...

, however, at the end of 2007 these teams merged to form the Shoalhaven Jets Rugby League Football Club. Other rugby league teams in the Shoalhaven area include the St Georges Basin Dragons, Culburra Dolphins, Sussex Inlet Panthers and Berry Magpies, all of whom source some of their players from Nowra. All of these clubs compete in the

Group 7 Rugby League South Coast Group 7 Rugby League (or Group 7 Rugby League for simplicity) is the divisional boundary drawn from the Southern Illawarra and South Coast regions (from the suburb of Warilla south to Ulladulla) of New South Wales, Australia and is ...

competition.

Rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

is represented by the Shoalhaven Rugby Club, who play out of Rugby Park in South Nowra. The club won the 2008 premiership in the Illawarra district competition, and has produced international and provincial players such as Andrew Walker and Alex Kanaar.

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

is played by two clubs from the Shoalhaven area, with the Bomaderry Tigers playing at Artie Smith Oval. Further south, the Bay and Basin Bombers play at the Leisure Centre at Vincentia. These two clubs are both members of the South Coast AFL, fielding junior and senior teams. The Shoalhaven Mariners were established in 2006 and represent the area in the sport of baseball. The team plays home matches out of Fred Finch Park in

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Wollongong Wollongong ( ; Dharawal: ''Woolyungah'') is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near water' or 'sound ...

. Baseball has a new venue at the South Nowra Soccer Complex. The

Shoalhaven Tigers The Shoalhaven Tigers are a local basketball association based on the New South Wales south coast. Teams currently compete in the New South Wales State Basketball League, Southern Junior Leagues, NSW Country Championships and Barrengarry Confere ...

represent the area in the

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and have won several championships from 1988 until 2007.

was an Australian

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racehorse trained in the Nowra area who won the first and the second

s in 1861 and 1862. He won both Cups by a significant margin. Archer is one of only five horses to have won the Melbourne Cup on two or more occasions, and one of only four horses to have won two successive Cups.

Public transport

Nowra Coaches operates services from Nowra to

, Huskisson, Vincentia and

Jervis Bay Jervis Bay () is a oceanic bay and village in the Jervis Bay Territory and on the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. A area of land around the southern headland of the bay, known as the Jervis Bay Terri ...

. Shoal Bus operates services from Nowra to

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Gerringong Gerringong () is a town located about ten minutes drive south of Kiama, New South Wales, Kiama, and about twenty minutes north of Nowra, New South Wales, Nowra in the Illawarra, New South Wales, Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia in ...

and

Sussex Inlet Sussex Inlet is a town in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the west bank of the waterway called Sussex Inlet, which divides New South Wales from the Jervis Bay Territory. The town lies within the City of Sho ...

. Premier Motor Service operates express services along the

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from

Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...

to Eden that call at Nowra. Nowra has no direct rail connection, but the

Illawarra railway line The South Coast Railway (also known as the Illawarra railway or the South Coast line) is a Commuter rail, passenger and Rail freight transport, freight railway line from Sydney to Wollongong and Bomaderry, New South Wales, Bomaderry in New So ...

terminates at nearby

Bomaderry railway station Bomaderry railway station is a heritage-listed single-platform intercity train station located in Bomaderry, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves diesel multiple unit trains to operated by Sydney Tr ...

with

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operating services to

Kiama Kiama may refer to: * Electoral district of Kiama, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Kiama, New South Wales, a town * Kiama (spider), a genus of spiders *Municipality of Kiama The Municipality of Kiama is a local government ar ...

and

.South Coast Line

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Notable people

, artist *

Tony Branson Tony Branson (1946-2020) was an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. A state and national representative five-eighth from Nowra in country New South Wales, Branson came to Sydney in 1968 to join the St G ...

, Australian rugby league international *

Deborah Cheetham Deborah Joy Cheetham Fraillon (born Deborah Joy Cheetham, 1964) is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, composer, and playwright. She leads Short Black Opera, based in Melbourne, which provides training and opportunities for emerging Aboriginal a ...

, Indigenous Australian opera singer. * Ian Davis, Australian cricket international *

Jeff Dowdell Jeffrey Dowdell (born 13 March 1987) is a former Australian professional basketball player. He played a total of 196 NBL games with four teams from 2005 to 2012. He also had a successful SEABL/NBL1 career playing for a number of clubs from 2004 ...

, basketball (

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) player *

Adam Federici Adam Jay Federici (born 31 January 1985) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Federici began his senior career at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2003, but was only there briefly and soon switched to Torres. A ...

, football (soccer) player *

Christie Hayes Christie Ayrna Lynne Hayes is an Australian actress, known for her work on the television series ''Home and Away'' as Kirsty Phillips (née Sutherland) who she played from June 2000 to February 2005, and again from May 2008 to October 2009. Si ...

, actress *

Blake Horton Blake Horton is an Australian association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Coniston FC, Coniston in the Illawarra Premier League. Born in Nowra, New South Wales, Horton began his senior care ...

, football (soccer) player *

William Kamm William Kamm, also known as "The Little Pebble" (born 1950 in Cologne, West Germany), is the founder and leader of a religious group in Australia called the "Order of St Charbel" (or sometimes referred to as "The Community") named after the Maroni ...

, also known as 'Little Pebble', disgraced religious leader *

Nic Maddinson Nicolas James Maddinson (born 21 December 1991) is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman who has represented Australia in both Test matches and Twenty20 Internationals. Domestically he plays for New South Wales and the Sy ...

, cricketer * Bruce McGuire, Australian rugby league international and NSW State of Origin player *

Frank Moorhouse Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer who won major national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France and t ...

, writer * Michael O'Connor, dual international rugby league and union player * Ashley Paske, actor. Appeared in ''

Neighbours ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera that has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and ...

'' (1989–1991). *

Karen Phillips Karen Anne Phillips (born 4 May 1966), known after marriage as Karen Anne Higgison, was an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer of the 1980s, who won the silver medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los ...

, swimmer * Rodney Rude, comedian * Arron Spiessberger-Parker, 1500m runner *

Jim Stanbury James Stanbury (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1945) was a world champion sculler. Stanbury was born on Mullet Island on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales and was the successor of John McLean in the rowing championship of the world. I ...

, World Professional Sculling Champion 1891–1896 and 1905–1906. *

Rohan Taylor Rohan Taylor is the head coach of the Australian Dolphins swimming team and formerly State Head Coach for swimming in Victoria and Tasmania. He was the performance coach of the Nunawading Swimming Club based in Melbourne, Australia. He has pr ...

, national swimming coach *

Corey Tutt Corey Aden Tutt is an Aboriginal Australian STEM professional, author, Social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur and the founder of DeadlyScience, an initiative that provides STEM resources to remote schools throughout Australia. In 2020 he ...

, founder of DeadlyScience * Andrew Walker, dual international rugby league and union player

Attractions

Shoalhaven Regional Gallery Shoalhaven Regional Gallery is an art gallery in Nowra, New South Wales. History The Shoalhaven Regional Gallery is located in the centre of Nowra, NSW and is administered by the Shoalhaven City Council. The gallery was previously known as t ...

Fleet Air Arm Museum The Fleet Air Arm Museum is devoted to the history of British naval aviation. It has an extensive collection of military and civilian aircraft, aero engines, models of aircraft and Royal Navy ships (especially aircraft carriers), and paintings ...

References

External links

Shoalhaven City Council

VISITNSW.com – Nowra
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