Australian Capital Territory and Canberra

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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.

No. Canberra is located about 120 Km inland from the coast.

The mainland part of the Australian Capital Territory does not have a coastline. It is entirely encompassed by the state of New South Wales. The length of its border is 306 km. However, Jervis Bay is the naval port of the ACT, located several hundred years away, on the southern NSW coast. The mainland length of the Jervis Bay territory of the ACT is 54 km, and the island length is 3 km.

Mississippi river :

Minnesota is the only state the river passes through, while it becomes the boundary for nine others: Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi. Its entire length is 2,352 miles (4100 km) ending up in the Gulf of Mexico.

In addition to the ten states it directly touches, its watershed is so huge that it drains water through wetlands and tributaries from 32 states and two Canadian provinces, a territory of 1.2 million square miles.

Opened in 1980 at Ainslie Primary School. In 1988 the current building was a gift from Japan for the Australian 1988 Bicentenary, its official opening was 23rd November 1988.

The capital of Australia is Canberra, located in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) inside the state of New South Wales.

Canberra is the national capital of Australia.

Canberra is the capital of Australia. It is known for being an entirely planned city, outside of any state, much like the Washington, DC area of the United States. The design of the city incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation.

This Territory as a whole does not have a true nickname, or state nickname, but has a derivative or short-form from part of its' name. It is called "The Territory" by nearly all "Territorians" (another example). "Northern" is nearly always omitted in these references by locals in everyday conversation.

"The NT" is also commonly used, with the emphasis on "The", but this is still not a true nick-name such as mentioned below.

The northern part of the Northern Territory is called the Top End, and the southern part containing Alice Springs and Uluru/Ayers Rock is often called the Red Centre, and less commonly but affectionately, The Central Heart Of Australia.

A variety of names had been suggested for Australia's capital, some tongue-in-cheek, such as Kangaremu, Australific and Meladneyperbane, which was a combination of the other state capital's names. Other possible choices were Olympus, Paradise, Captain Cook, Shakespeare, Eucalypta and Myola. The final choice of Canberra remained a secret until the laying of the foundation stones on 12 March 1913.

Sir Walter Burley Griffin designed Australia's national capital of Canberra. He won the competition to design Australia's national capital, whereby he and his wife moved to Australia, where Griffin was appointed as the Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction. To commemorate Burley Griffin's role in the design of the national capital, the artificial lake formed by damming the Molonglo River was named after him.

No, Sydney is Northeast of Adelaide. Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, and lies on the Fleurieu Peninsula near the southern coast. Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and is located on the eastern coast.

Using my iphone Google Maps App the answer is 26, 106 km, which, if your in America, is aprox. 16, 221 miles.

Canberra is the national capital of Australia.

The reason Canberra was chosen as the location of the national capital was that Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, had been rivals since before the goldrush days. It was therefore decided that the Australian capital should be situated between the two cities. A location was chosen which was 248km from Sydney and 483km from Melbourne, within easy access of both cities. Farming land was taken up for this purpose.

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."

Prior to the construction of the Australian Parliament House, the Federal Parliament met in Melbourne, capital city of Victoria, for the simple reason that it was the only city with a building large enough to house the parliament.

Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, was originally called Palmerston. Named in 1855, it was only renamed "Darwin" in 1911.

The distance from Echuca on the Murray River to Melbourne is 229 km. Depending on traffic, the trip takes around 3 hours.