What Landmarks are there in Australian Capital territory?

Answer 1

* Parliamentary Triangle on Capital Hill consisting of Old Parliament House and the New Parliament House * Lake Burley Griffin and the Carillon and Captain Cook Memorial Water Jet * Australian War Memorial * American War Memorial * National Naval Memorial * Mount Ainslie * Black Mountain Tower * Mount Stromlo Observatory (rebuilt after the 2003 Canberra bushfires) * Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Centre * Ginninderra Waterfalls

Answer 2

Famous natural landmarks of Australia include:

• Uluru/Ayers Rock, the world's second largest monolith
• Mt Augustus, the world's largest monolith
• Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island
• the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef (actually a series of reefs) and the only living organism visible from space
• Kata-tjuta/the Olgas - bald rock domes in central Australia
• the Pinnacles - a vast desert of upright sandstone formations, weathered over time into weird shapes
• the Three Sisters, a famous landmark in the Blue Mountains
• Chambers Pillar, a stark, upright pillar in northern South Australia, rising up suddenly from the desert landscape
• the Twelve Apostles, off the southern Victorian coastline - a series of sandstone cliffs and rock formations that are gradually eroding away (three have collapsed in the last few years)
• Wave Rock, a 14m high granite rock cliff face near Hyden, Western Australia, weathered into a perfect wave formation
• the Bungle Bungles of northwest Western Australia
• Lake Eyre, 15m below sea level in the South Australian outback
• Nullarbor Plain, a huge, treeless plain crossing South Australia and western Australia
• Kakadu, in the Northern Territory
• Standley Chasm, central Australia
• the Macdonnell Ranges of central Australia, with their unique wavelike formations
• Undara Lava tubes in far north Queensland
• Wilpena Pound, a huge meteorite crater in South Australia's Flinders Ranges
• Mt Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mainland mountain
• Warrumbungles, a unique mountain range in northern New South Wales
• Whitsundays, a group of islands off Queensland's central coast
• Natural Arch in the Gold Coast hinterland
• Kiama blowhole, central NSW coast
• Tasman Arch, Tasmania
• Tessellated Pavement, Tasmania
• many, many caves scattered throughout Australia, some for just tourists and others for serious spelunkers - Narracoorte, Buchan, Abercrombie, Jenolan, Wellington
• Daintree Rainforest of far north Queensland
• the Channel country of northwest Queensland, where the rivers overflow during the monsoon, flooding thousands of square kilometres of countryside

Famous man made landmarks of Australia include:

• Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach (western Queensland)
• Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• The Australian War Memorial, Canberra
• Port Arthur, an old convict prison in Tasmania
• Ettamogah Pub, an odd, misshapen pub near Albury, NSW, and with a replica on Queensland's Sunshine Coast
• the town of Coober Pedy in South Australia where, due to people living underground, it is characterised by a moonscape appearance, with holes and domes of mullock heaps everywhere
• The Great Ocean Road, a winding road of historical and engineering significance, cut out of the rock face overlooking the Southern Ocean
• Old Melbourne Gaol
• Fremantle Gaol and the Round House
• the lighthouse at Cape Byron, Australia's easternmost point
• the Dingo fence and Rabbit-proof fence

Answer 3

Parliament House, Mt Stromlo Observatory. National Library, Australian War Memorial, Art Gallery,