SOUTHERN CLOUD MEMORIAL is located near (Tooma Rd), a mountainous inland town in southern New South Wales, on the northern outskirts of Tuma (Tooma), about 500km from Sydney, the capital of New South Wales.
SOUTHERN CLOUD MEMORIAL was built to commemorate Australia's first major civil aviation crash. On March 21, 1931, a three-engine airliner disappeared without a trace, along with eight people, including six passengers and two crew members, en route from Sydney to Melbourne, Australia. For the next 27 years, the plane has not been found, historically known as "Nanyun (Southern Cloud)." It was not until October 26, 1958, during the construction of (Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme) in the Great Snow Mountain Water Conservancy Project, that the mystery was solved when Tom Sundt, a carpenter, stumbled upon the rusty metal wreckage of the plane.
The debris of the South Cloud is hidden in the southwest side of the treed ridge of Kosciuszko National Park today.
SOUTHERN CLOUD MEMORIAL consists of triangular blunt tips and 40 feet wide cement wings that soar freely. On the front of the sculpture, the recovered Nanyun engine parts and other historical relics are sealed with barbed wire.
