Australian Capital Territory and Canberra

The town of Young in central New South wales is known as the cherry capital.

Old Parliament House was built because meetings needed to be held for important reasons and for the prime minister and deputy prime minister to hold meetings about the government.

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It's a joking name that suggests that the painter was taking a vacation when those spots should have been painted.

The first Australian Federal Parliament was held in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. It was the only building large enough to house the 14,000 guests. The first Parliament was opened by the Duke of Cornwall and York, later King George V, on 9 May 1901.

The original Parliament House was not as temporary as intended. It served the Australian Federal Parliament for sixty years.

Construction on the new Parliament House began in 1981, and it was actually finally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1988.

The state opening of parliament by the monarch is held in November.

No. Canberra is not a state of Australia. It is a city and the national capital of Australia.

The Limestone Plains area (Canberra-Yass) had been settled from as early as the 1820s, but there was no city in the region. The first settler was Joshua John Moore who took up land in the area in 1824, naming it Canberry. He took this name after hearing the local indigenous people use the word Kamberra when they conversed. Moore's land was situated at the base of Black Mountain, although much of his land now lies submerged by Lake Burley Griffin.

Canberra is Australia's official capital city. It is the seat of Federal Parliament, and therefore the political capital of Australia. It is not a state capital.

Australia does not have a president the head of the government is the prime minister. However above him is the governor general, Role is similar to that of the queen in England. He has some powers that are strictly set out by the constitution and he is never involved in the day-to-day administration of Australia.

Quite simply, Canberra is the capital of Australia. Following Federation of the states, agreement could not be reached on whether Sydney (which was the older and larger city) or Melbourne (which was the richer city) should be the capital of Australia. There was a stalemate as neither would agree to the other being the capital. Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, had been rivals since before the goldrush days. It was therefore decided that the nation's capital should be situated between the two cities. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia provided that:

"The seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be determined by the Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth, and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney.

Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles, and such portion thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefore. The Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meets at the seat of Government." A location was chosen which was 248km from Sydney and 483km from Melbourne. The federal parliament sat in Melbourne until then, as Melbourne was the only city with a building large enough to house parliament. It could not move until the Parliament building was built in Canberra. This is now called "Old Parliament House" as a new parliament was opened in 1988. Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927.

That depends on the farmer.

First founded in 1825 in New York created by the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism.

No. Walter Burley Griffin's accomplishments included the city of Canberra itself, as well as other sities such as Griffith (in the Riverina area of New South Wales).

He did not design either the old or new Parliament House.

Average flight time between Canberra and Melbourne is 1 hour 5 minutes.

As with any flight, sometimes it varies by a few minutes (depending on the wind).

The slogan for the ACT is Nation's Capital. It used to be Heart of the Nation and at one stage it was Feel the Power.

The latitude and longitude of Canberra are 35°18′27″S 149°07′27.9″E

In most territories, the national capital is the place where the main assembly or other organ of government is based.

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2006) --- Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history. ----

The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out. Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia -- also suggest that it could have begun the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent by creating the tectonic rift that pushed Australia northward. Scientists believe that the Permian-Triassic extinction paved the way for the dinosaurs to rise to prominence. The Wilkes Land crater is more than twice the size of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, which marks the impact that may have ultimately killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The Chicxulub meteor is thought to have been 6 miles wide, while the Wilkes Land meteor could have been up to 30 miles wide -- four or five times wider. "This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time," said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University. He and Laramie Potts, a postdoctoral researcher in geological sciences, led the team that discovered the crater. They collaborated with other Ohio State and NASA scientists, as well as international partners from Russia and Korea. They reported their preliminary results in a recent poster session at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly meeting in Baltimore. The scientists used gravity fluctuations measured by NASA's GRACE satellites to peer beneath Antarctica's icy surface, and found a 200-mile-wide plug of mantle material -- a mass concentration, or "mascon" in geological parlance -- that had risen up into the Earth's crust. Mascons are the planetary equivalent of a bump on the head. They form where large objects slam into a planet's surface. Upon impact, the denser mantle layer bounces up into the overlying crust, which holds it in place beneath the crater. When the scientists overlaid their gravity image with airborne radar images of the ground beneath the ice, they found the mascon perfectly centered inside a circular ridge some 300 miles wide -- a crater easily large enough to hold the state of Ohio. Taken alone, the ridge structure wouldn't prove anything. But to von Frese, the addition of the mascon means "impact." Years of studying similar impacts on the moon have honed his ability to find them. "If I saw this same mascon signal on the moon, I'd expect to see a crater around it," he said. "And when we looked at the ice-probing airborne radar, there it was." "There are at least 20 impact craters this size or larger on the moon, so it is not surprising to find one here," he continued. "The active geology of the Earth likely scrubbed its surface clean of many more." He and Potts admitted that such signals are open to interpretation. Even with radar and gravity measurements, scientists are only just beginning to understand what's happening inside the planet. Still, von Frese said that the circumstances of the radar and mascon signals support their interpretation. "We compared two completely different data sets taken under different conditions, and they matched up," he said. To estimate when the impact took place, the scientists took a clue from the fact that the mascon is still visible. "On the moon, you can look at craters, and the mascons are still there," von Frese said. "But on Earth, it's unusual to find mascons, because the planet is geologically active. The interior eventually recovers and the mascon goes away." He cited the very large and much older Vredefort crater in South Africa that must have once had a mascon, but no evidence of it can be seen now. "Based on what we know about the geologic history of the region, this Wilkes Land mascon formed recently by geologic standards -- probably about 250 million years ago," he said. "In another half a billion years, the Wilkes Land mascon will probably disappear, too." Approximately 100 million years ago, Australia split from the ancient Gondwana supercontinent and began drifting north, pushed away by the expansion of a rift valley into the eastern Indian Ocean. The rift cuts directly through the crater, so the impact may have helped the rift to form, von Frese said. But the more immediate effects of the impact would have devastated life on Earth. "All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure. So it makes sense that a lot of life went extinct at that time," he said. He and Potts would like to go to Antarctica to confirm the finding. The best evidence would come from the rocks within the crater. Since the cost of drilling through more than a mile of ice to reach these rocks directly is prohibitive, they want to hunt for them at the base of the ice along the coast where the ice streams are pushing scoured rock into the sea. Airborne gravity and magnetic surveys would also be very useful for testing their interpretation of the satellite data, they said. NSF and NASA funded this work. Collaborators included Stuart Wells and Orlando Hernandez, graduate students in geological sciences at Ohio State; Luis Gaya-Piqué and Hyung Rae Kim, both of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Alexander Golynsky of the All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean; and Jeong Woo Kim and Jong Sun Hwang, both of Sejong University in Korea.

From Canberra to Cooma is a distance of about 113 km.

To travel from Melbourne to Canberra by road is a distance of 657km. Actual travelling time would be almost 8 hours, but that does not account for rest breaks.

The Flight mileage is 473 km.