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Of Australian cities which comprise skyscrapers, Sydney constructed the first skyscraper in the country in 1967, [1] followed by Melbourne in 1972, [2] Brisbane and Perth in 1988, [3] [4] and most recently, the Gold Coast in 2004. [5]
The Indian Pacific is a weekly experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean – thus, like its counterpart in the north–south corridor, The Ghan, one of the few truly transcontinental trains in the world.
The corridor is heavily trafficked by long-distance freight trains. As of 2008 [update] , [ needs update ] the rail corridor carried 81 per cent of land freight between the eastern states and Perth, up from 60 per cent in 1996–97; [ 3 ] and in November 2007, 3.46 billion gross tonne-kilometres of freight was carried, a record at the time.
The distance between the east and west as the crow flies is 4,000 km (2,500 mi), or 3,860 km (2,400 mi) from north to south†. [1] The westernmost capital city in Australia is Perth, and the easternmost capital city is Brisbane. The northernmost city is Darwin, and the southern to the southernmost city is Hobart.
The skyline of Melbourne in January 2024, as viewed from the Shrine of Remembrance. Melbourne is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. [1] Of those completed and or topped-out, 77 buildings are defined as "skyscrapers"–buildings which reach a height of at least 150 metres (490 ft); more than any other city in Australia.
South Perth: 99 Mill Point Road: 8 Exchange Plaza: 146 m (479 ft) 40 1992 Office CBD: 2 The Esplanade: 9 Capital Square Tower 3 141 m (463 ft) 37 2024 Mixed use CBD: 1 Spring Street: 10 St Martins Tower: 140 m (459 ft) 33 1978 Office CBD: 44 St Georges Terrace: Tallest building in Perth from 1978 to 1988. 11 Woodside Plaza: 137 m (449 ft) 28 ...
The nation's first skyscraper as defined today by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as buildings exceeding 150 metres was the Australia Square Tower in Sydney, completed in 1967. The vast majority of Australia's buildings which exceed 150 metres in height are located in the eastern states of Victoria , New South Wales , and ...
The straight-line distance between the east and west is 4,030 km (2,500 mi), whereas the distance in the north-south direction is 3,685 km (2,290 mi). [ note 1 ] City-pairs on opposite shores include, among others, Perth and Brisbane , Darwin and Hobart , and Perth and Sydney.