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City Hill - a park very centrally located in Canberra but there's not much to see here.
Evening view from a little mound just behind the flower garden at Vernon Circle. To the north is the ...
The 21-metre Christmas Tree at Civic Square is back for 2012!Unlike my 2011 effort, this year I came ...
Christmas 2011 is almost upon us and by now huge chrissy trees would have gone up in many cities arou...
Civic Square in June 2011. For further info about Civic Square please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
This area, enclosed by Knowles Place and London Circuit, houses the ACT Law Courts, RBA (Reserve Bank...
A sheep (happily?) offers itself up for some hot horizontal lamb'aaada to the other sheep, in broad d...
This is around where Allara St becomes Binara St in Civic. Let's see what's around here... Casino Can...
Garema Place in Civic, photo taken on Christmas Day 2011. Normally during the daytime like this the a...
What looked to me like a big short screw placed in the middle of a courtyard at New Acton. Fancy that...
Garema Place in Civic, photo taken on Christmas Day 2011. Normally during the daytime like this the a...
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.
