Canberra - Tourist Spots
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Here at the northern shore of the lake you can get a glimpse of many of the well known touristy sites in Canberra. Let's see...
Lake Burley Griffin - check.
Captain Cook Memorial Jet - check.
Commonwealth Bridge - check.
National Museum - check, a bit obstructed.
Regatta Point - check.
Parliament House (flagpole at least) - check.
National Library - check.
High Court - check.
Carillon - check.
Commonwealth Bridge viewed from underneath, with a few pidgeons here and there for company.
Sunset over Commonwealth Bridge, seen from Regatta Point, Commonwealth Park.The large flagpole in the...
Floriade 2012, Commonwealth Park, Canberra. 25th anniversary of Floriade.As Canberra emerges out of i...
Floriade 2012, Commonwealth Park, Canberra. 25th anniversary of Floriade.As Canberra emerges out of i...
Special Event organised by ANU CNMA (Centre for New Media Arts)
Some nice autumn colours in the late afternoon at Canberra Peace Park which is an area sandwiched bet...
The National Museum of Australia is located on Acton Peninsula, Canberra.Notably visible in this phot...
National Library of Australia, front entrance.
The Uluru line at dusk, located at the entrance to the National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula....
Nerang Pool at Commonwealth Park.
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.
