Cobar with its mining and rural background can be your next holiday destination. This small town is situated between Dubbo and Broken Hills and is renowned for its huge copper mine which opened about 1960 and also for its silver, lead and zinc mine opened in 1983. Copper mine is the key to Cobar’s ever increasing fame as a mining town. Moreover the town’s name apparently has its origin in the aboriginal name for the color of copper. Situated 5.5 km from the town center Cobar Airport, Cobar is gateway to reach this mining town.
Cobar Airport, Cobar is easily accessible by the visitors for its convenient location. The IATA code of this airport in Cobar, Australia is CAZ and the ICAO code is YCBA. Daily scheduled Flights to Cobar from different domestic destinations and a lot of cheap charter flights from Sydney land/take off at Cobar Airport in Australia.
The Airport in Cobar has two runways Runway 05/23 and Runway 17/35. Both of these have same width but they differ in length. The first one has 4984 feet length whereas the second has 4006 feet. Asphalt paved Runway 05/23 has more capacity to bear weight than Runway 17/35 with clay surface.
The airlines serving Cobar Airport, Cobar and the destinations are stated below:
- Air South Charter (Adelaide, Parafield Airport, Whyalla, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy, Woomera, Kingscote, Mount Gambier, Melbourne, Ballarat, Albury, Horsham, Mallacoota, Sydney, Broken Hill, Canberra, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Forrest)
- Air Link Airlines ( Bourke, Dubbo)
You can also connect Cobar through some of the nearby airports. They are:
- Nyngan
- Bourke
- Warren
- Hillston
- Wilcannia
- Brewarrina
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- Ivanhoe
- Condobolin
- West Wyalong
- Forbes
- Goodooga
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During your sojourn in Cobar, visit the following attractions in the vicinity of the town:
- Cobar Heritage Walk
- Cobar Miner’s Heritage Park
- Centenary of Federation Walking Track
- Commonwealth Meteorological Station
- Great Cobar Copper Mine
- Great Cobar Open Cut
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- Mt. Drysdale
- Mt. Grenfell Historic Site
- Stele Monument
- The Great Cober Heritage Centre
- The old reservoir & Devil’s rock
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