Coonabarabran

Coonabarabran, town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Castlereagh River, near the Pilliga Scrub district. Coonabarabran was surveyed in 1859 and gazetted a shire in 1906, its name derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “inquisitive person.” Lying along the Newell and Oxley highways, with regular air and rail services to Sydney (210 miles [340 km] southeast), the town serves an area of wheat and sheep farming, horticulture and viticulture, lumbering (cypress pine),...