Discover_Australia

Discover Australia Canberra: 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. Canberra is growing, and has been ever since it was annouced as Australia's degrees, population, average, south, gold, area, port, east, latitude, first, vegetation, temperature, rainfall, over, hill, coast, being, town, people, now, growing, city, newcastle, name, mm, mining, canberra, broken, been, annual, winter, territory, temperatures, telegraph, summer, region, one, new, mt, hedland, became, australia's, australia, alice, aboriginal, station, springs, since, sheep, set