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Canberra

A travel agent's window in Canberra: The World from Australia's perspective. Maps with this perspective would be standard issue in every classroom and Australian atlas.

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 13 March 2011 | Views [378]

A travel agent's window in Canberra: The World from Australia's perspective. Maps with this perspective would be standard issue in every classroom and Australian atlas.

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A beautiful morning on Lake Burley Griffin, named after Canberra's planner. This location was chosen as the site for Australia's compromise capital in 1913 (to avoid favouring Sydney or Melbourne), but was built very slowly over the next 70-plus years. Even now the population is barely 350,000, but it is one of the world's greatest planned cities, endlessly fascinating. In this picture the National Carillon is on the left and the High Court (Supreme Court) the big blocky building in the middle.

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