Top places: Canberra - includes, Parliament House, Black Mountain Tower, Mt Ainslee, National Gallery of Australia, The Australian War Memorial, the National Botanic Gardens, The Australian Institute of Sport. The Australian Alps.
The Australian Capital Territory or
ACT as it is known, is a small territory that is land locked within the hilly
country of southeastern New South Wales. The
only settlement in ACT is Canberra, a city arranged around Lake Burley
Griffin.
Canberra is also the capital city of Australia, is one of three planned capital cities in the world. The other two are Washington DC and Brasilia.
Canberra is the only non-coastal city in Australia with a reasonable population. Recreation here is more famous for skiing than the water based activities you find in other Australian cities.
Being a planned city, the streets of Canberra are laid out in a spider web shape and contain more gardens than any other world city. The city also contains many unusually designed buildings including Parliament and is the
location for foreign embassies. The embassies are almost located side by side and all seem to try and out do each other with design and finesse.
ANZAC
Memorial a popular tourist place commemorates the sacrifice of Australian and New Zealand men and women who have served in war. In the main Memorial Building are some twenty
galleries of exhibits depicting the Australian experience of war, along with works by some of Australia's finest artists.
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