Canberra - Dead Tree b/w Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura |
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A dead tree with an overhead spread of branches, located on a track between Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura.
A beautiful autumn day in Canberra.Looking accross a sculptured landscape of the city is a sight to b...
HMAS Brisbane - her bridge and gun turret on display at the Australian War Memorial.
Colourfully painted German railway gun at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Western Courtyard at the Australian War Memorial. Obviously the Memorial is one of Canberra's key tou...
The Australian War Memorial, as viewed from the front at sunset.Directly behind the Memorial is Mt Ai...
Anzac Day Dawn Service in Canberra Australia 2011. Gathered before dawn his panorama was taken while ...
The Australian Army Memorial on ANZAC Parade, commemorating the service of Aussie soldiers - more inf...
The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial on ANZAC Parade, honouring past and present nurses of...
The Australian National Korean War Memorial on ANZAC Parade, commemorating those who served in the Ko...
The Australian National Korean War Memorial on ANZAC Parade, commemorating those who served in the Ko...
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.