Australian Capital Territory and Canberra

Car.

Busses and bikes are popular alternate transport and Trams/light rail are a popular idea- many people want them

According to the CIA World Factbook, Australia exportscoal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat, machinery and transport equipment and imports machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts; crude oil and petroleum products.

Canberra is situated near the Brindabella Ranges and its altitude ranges from 550 metres to 700 metres. Therefore, its main landforms are hills. The highest point is Mount Majura at 888 metres (2,913 ft). Other large hills include Mt Taylor, Mt Ainslie, Mt Mugga Mugga and Black Mountain. Canberra itself lies within grasslands, called the Canberra Basin. Lake George (which is near, not in, Canberra) is on a Fault. The Molonglo River flows through Canberra.

The Northern Territory does not have a premier. The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory holds a similar position to that of the state premier. The first Chief Minister was Paul Everingham.

There are two theories as to how Canberra got its name.

The first settler in the Canberra region - then known as Limestone Plains - 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, referring to the site as a "meeting place".

When the site was chosen for the nation's capital, it was to be the "meeting place" for the political parties and the people. Hence, the name Canberra was chosen.

However, more recent evidence suggests it may actually be a corruption of the indigenous word "ngambri", taken from the aboriginal people of the same name, who referred to the Ngambri area as their country. There have been suggestions that this word possibly means "a woman's cleavage", referring to the way the area is surrounded by hills.

Canberra is a city of extremes. Winters are very cold, and oil heaters or fireplaces an absolute necessity. However, there are several weeks in the middle of summer when the climate is dry, with temperatures extremely hot. At other tims of the year, Canberra weather is quite unpredictable. Snow has been known to fall in October (the middle of Spring), and heat-generated lightning storms can occur in summer and autumn.

Australia is a vast country and has eight capital states in it's territory's which consists of Melbourne in Victoria, Sydney and Canberra in New South Wales, Brisbane in Queensland, Darwin in the Northern Territory, Western Australia has Perth, the South has Adelaide and last but not least down in Tasmania is Hobart.

Canberra, Australia - Latitude 35.15 S Longitude 149.08 E

Source: Web called Maps of the World

Because it lies in a wind protected rain shadow. Being in a valley it doesn't get too much wind and because of the Brindabella ranges nearby it doesnt get as much rain as other places. However Canberra is generally considered cold

The Northern Territory is a territory, not a state, in Australia. Positioned in the central northern area, it is bordered by Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the east, and South Australia to the south.

The area of Lake Burley Griffin is 6,640,000.0 square meters.

This is the Tasman Sea, named after explorer Abel Tasman. It separates Australia and New Zealand.

Number who have ever been born---------------------------------106,456,367,669

World population in mid-2002------------------------------------------6,215,000,000

Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002--------------5.8

These figures are the result of a lot of speculation and the application of a certain amount of licence as any population records available for mankind only go back about 1% of their existence in time.

Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, was named after a scientist, though not directly.

Originally named Palmerston, the city was renamed Port Darwin in 1911, which became just "Darwin". The harbour on which Darwin is located had been named Darwin Harbour by the Captain of the Beagle, John Lort Stokes, who named it after his former shipmate, Charles Darwin, after Stokes discovered it in 1839.

Western Australia has always been part of the continent of Australia. However, the colony of the Swan River in Western Australia was claimed as territory of Australia, rather than remaining as New Holland, in 1829.

In 1829, Captain Charles Fremantle was sent to take formal possession of the remainder of New Holland which had not already been claimed for Britain under the territory of New South Wales. On 2 May 1829, Captain Fremantle raised the Union Jack on the south head of the Swan River, thus claiming the territory for Britain. The Swan River Colony was officially renamed to Western Australia in 1832.

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There are several routes Melb to Canberra. They include Hume Highway (the most direct) & Princes Highway via East Gippsland - very scenic. Both take the best part of the day to travel - say between 7 & 10 hours? About 400 or so miles - depending on how and which way you travel. There is a train & connecting bus service via Gippsland and other routes.

It is often thought that Melbourne was the temporary national capital from federation in 1901 until the opening of Canberra in 1927.

In actuality, Melbourne was never officially the capital city of Australia, but it was the temporary seat of power in Australia - a fine line of difference. From 1901 to 1927, the Australian Parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne, which it borrowed from the parliament of the state of Victoria, which in turn sat in the Exhibition Building.

Sydney was never the capital, or even acting capital of Australia.

It is 163km from Gundagai to Canberra. Estimated travel time is just over an hour and a half.