Discover Australia
Canberra's latitude is 149 degrees east and the longtitude is 35 degrees south. The temperatures in Canberra vary considerably from summer to winter. Its freezing during winter seeing as the temperature often drops below zero at night and are usually below 10ºC in the day. In summer the temperatures are usually mild but can rise above 30ºC. The annual average rainfall is 632 mm. Canberra vegetation Eucalypt dominated.Canberra has the population of just over 300,000 which includes an aborignal population of about 500-2000 For over 21,000 years the Canberra area has been lived on by the Ngunawal and Walgalu aborignal people, Whilst white people have only occupied the space for about eighty years. The first European settler in the district was Joshua John Moore who established a sheep station called 'Canberry'. It's believed the name Canberry was based on an Aboriginal name for the area Kamberra/Kambery. In 1913 Canberra became the official name for the area. The Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, was declared on 1 January 1911. It became a self-governing territory in 1989. Canberra's main function being Australia's capital territory is government, with the parliament house being situated there.
On March 11th, 1871, an overland Telegraph Line surveyor, William Mills, discovered a river-bed spring three kilometres north of the present city and named it Alice Springs after the wife of Charles wing, and has been ever since it was annouced as Australia's capital teritory. The name 'dubbo' is of Aboriginal origin, meaning, in various dialects, 'red earth', 'foggy', 'head covering' and 'possum fur head covering'. Newcastle is a growing community with more people moving to Newcastle and away from the small town communities along the Myall Lakes. Port Hedland was discovered in 1829 but it was not until 1864 that the Pilbara's first sheep station was set up on the nearby De Grey River. The first Port Hedland jetty was commenced in 1896, it is now used as a mineral port amond other things. This Port is perhaps one of the worlds busiest mineral port in the world.
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