Canberra - National Museum Of Australia
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The National Museum of Australia is located on Acton Peninsula, Canberra.
Notably visible in this photo are one of the museum buildings, the Garden of Australian Dreams (in the reflections in the glass windows) and the Uluru line loop (the one that looks like a roller-coaster loop).
More info at the official site: http://www.nma.gov.au
Special Event organised by ANU CNMA (Centre for New Media Arts)
The Uluru line at dusk, located at the entrance to the National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula....
A beautiful golden glow cast over a very serene Lake Burley Griffin. At Acton Peninsula right near th...
Commonwealth Bridge viewed from underneath, with a few pidgeons here and there for company.
Here at the northern shore of the lake you can get a glimpse of many of the well known touristy sites...
Canberra-Nara Peace Park located within Lennox Gardens, in early autumn.
Many embassies and high commissions in Canberra were built in a style representing typical architectu...
National Library of Australia, front entrance.
What looked to me like a big short screw placed in the middle of a courtyard at New Acton. Fancy that...
Sunset over Commonwealth Bridge, seen from Regatta Point, Commonwealth Park.The large flagpole in the...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.
