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During the 18th of January Bushfire, the first Canberra buildings to burn down were the Mont Stromlo ones. Almost 2 years later, the Yale-Columbia Dome has been cleaned and remains there, as a reminder, with now an open roof to the sky.
Molonglo River, on a very cloudy day, at the Lower Molonglo Nature Reserve.
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The Cotter Dam enlargement construction work is currently ongoing (November, 2012). When completed, t...
The Cotter Dam enlargement construction work is currently ongoing (November, 2012). When completed, t...
View from right next to Mt Arawang Trig, in Cooleman Ridge Nature Reserve. I was running 10 minutes l...
These wormy, rusty-coloured twisted metal things sitting on a hill actually form the words Wide Brown...
A BBQ area built in the midst of the Himalayan Cedar forest at the National Arboretum in Canberra.
A sculpture located on the corner of Furzer and Worgan Sts in Phillip, is called Droplet (source: 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.
