Nowra, Australia

Nowra is the commercial and main administrative centre for the Shoalhaven region in New South Wales, Australia. Nowra is about 160km by road south of Sydney, the state capital of New South Wales on the eastern coast of Australia. Nowra is, with its twin-town of Bomaderry, across the Shoalhaven River, a town of around 29,000 people (2001 Census). The region around Nowra is a farming community, sustaining a thriving dairy industry and a number of State forests, but is also increasingly a retirement and leisure area for Canberra and Sydney.

The City of Shoalhaven (population 91,500) is the local government area that covers 4,660 square kilometres covering around 100km from the town of Berry in the north, to Durras Lake in the south; and, around 70km from Jervis Bay in the east to Mt Griffith Taylor near Bungonia Caves in the west.

Major industries

• HMAS Albatross, the naval air station of the Royal Australian Navy, about 10km west of Nowra.
• Paper mill
• farming
• tourism