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Canberra: The Meeting Place

By Don Kiselewski,
MCC, D.S., Palm Beach
Gardens Travel Leaders
About 175 years ago, a
small settlement of squatters
gathered at a clearing
some 185 miles southeast
of Sydney and 290 miles
northeast of Melbourne,
Australia. The place was
called Canberry or Canbury,
derived from the aboriginals
in the area and meaning “meeting place.” A dozen years later
the name Canberra was settled upon. Now an Aussie can
quickly tell where you’re from by the way you pronounce
the name of their capital city; in Australia it’s not Can-bear-
ra, but rather it’s Can-bra. The name has been “Aussie-ized,”
like so many of their other city names such as Cairn (Cans),
Brisbane (Bris-bin) and others. Australia’s striking Parliament House in Canberra
So why so much hype for this town that lies on a plain
at the foot of the 6,000-foot spur of the Australian Alps? It was the Australian
Well, to put it simply, it was the compromise location Constitution that required the
between Melbourne and Sydney when it was chosen establishment of a territory, and
for the site of the national capital in 1909. This site was so the Australian Capital Territory
selected just eight years after the inauguration of the was formed, much the same as
Commonwealth. Washington, D.C., which does not
lie in any state. The 900 square
miles of the territory lies within
the Southern Tablelands district of
New South Wales. Canberra itself
is located in the upper northeast
corner of the territory.
So what had been happening
on this site before this time?
Well, the earliest evidence of
a settlement dates back only
21,000 years. It was the aboriginal The Parliament House’s sloped lawn roof helps it blend into the landscape.
Wiradjuri tribe that controlled
the site when Europe was developing. This tribe used on the limestone plain in 1821. The land was divided into
to visit the site in the late spring to feast on a mountain tracks over the next 10 years.
delicacy, the bogong moths. Charles Throsby is said to
have been the first European settler in the area, arriving Canberra: The Meeting Place on page 17

Canberra’s National Carillon on the shores of Lake
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