When was Canberra discovered?

Answer 1

It was never discovered. The city Canberra was built just so Australia could have a Capital. People couldn't decide if Melbourne or Sydney should be the Capital of Australia so people made a city called Canberra between Sydney and Melbourne to be Australia's Capital.

Further information:

Cities themselves are not discovered, but the regions where they come to be built are discovered.

The local Aboriginal nation, comprising the Ngambri and the Ngunnawal people, had been living in the Canberra region long before Europeans first found it.

Following European settlement of the continent, where Australia's capital city, Canberra, is now located became rich farming land known as Limestone Plains. Little-known Australian explorer Joseph Wild, an ex-convict, together with James Vaughan and Charles Throsby, first explored the area in 1815.

Answer 2

Cities themselves are not discovered, but the regions where they come to be built are discovered.

The local Aboriginal nation, comprising the Ngambri and the Ngunnawal people, had been living in the Canberra region long before Europeans first found it.

Following European settlement of the continent, where Australia's capital city, Canberra, is now located became rich farming land known as Limestone Plains. Little-known Australian explorer Joseph Wild, an ex-convict, together with James Vaughan and Charles Throsby, first explored the area in 1815.

Answer 3

On 1 January 1911, the Australian Federal Capital Territory was established as an area of 2 360 square kilometres in the Yass-Canberra district.

The first survey peg marking the beginning of the development of the city of Canberra was driven in on 20 February 1913 by King O'Malley, Minister for Home Affairs.

The foundation stones were laid on 12 March 1913. Lady Denman, wife of the Governor-General, then announced the name of the city as Canberra, believed to be a derivation of an Aboriginal word for 'meeting place'.