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About COWRA

Cowra is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia in Cowra Shire. It is located 310m above sea-level and about 300 kilometres west of Sydney on the banks of the Lachlan River.

The original name for Cowra was 'Coura Rocks'. This may have been the name of one of the earliest cattle stations. This name is probably the name of the river ford where people could cross the Lachlan River.

In 1941 a prisoner of war camp was built and housed Japanese and Italian POWs. In 1944 Cowra gained notoriety as the site of the largest mass POW escape in military history. During the breakout and subsequent recapture of POWs, four Australian guards and 231 Japanese died, and 108 prisoners were wounded. The dead Japanese were buried in Cowra in a specially created Japanese War Cemetery. This is the only such cemetery in Australia, and also holds some of the dead from the WWII air raids on Darwin.

Today Cowra is home to the Australian replica of the UN's World Peace Bell, an honour normally reserved for a nation's capital city and it was awarded to Cowra in recognition of its unique contribution to international understanding, promotion of peace and as a centre of world friendship.

A Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre and Japanese war cemetery have been established in the town as symbols of historical ties between Cowra and Japan.

Restaurants, craft shops and galleries are some of the other attractions in Cowra. Nearby are wineries, horse riding, Darbys Falls Observatory, Conimbla National Park, Wyangala Waters State Recreation Area and Bellevue Hill Lookout and Fauna Reserve.

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