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Most civil service departments were moved to Canberra in the 1950s, and the High Court of Australia was finally moved from Melbourne to Canberra in 1980. After an extensive search, the present site, about 300 kilometres (190 mi) south-west of Sydney, in the foothills of the Australian Alps, was chosen in 1908 as a result of survey work done by ...
Canberra to Melbourne: A25 National Highway 25 Barton Highway: Canberra to ACT/NSW border 52 A25 National Highway 25 NSW/ACT border to Yass: M31 National Highway 31 Hume Highway: Yass to Albury: 294 M31 National Highway (M)31 Hume Freeway: Wodonga to Melbourne 290 M80 National Highway M80 Western Ring Road: Melbourne 15 651 kilometres
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
The Constitution specified that until this national capital was ready, the Parliament would sit in Melbourne. In 1927, the national capital was finally ready and the national government relocated from its former seat in Melbourne to Canberra within the Australian Capital Territory (or the Federal Capital Territory as it was known at the time).
Monaro Highway is a 285-kilometre-long (177 mi) highway in Victoria, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia, linking Cann River in Victoria to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) via the Monaro region.
Canberra (/ ˈ k æ n b ər ə / ⓘ KAN-bər-ə) is the capital city of Australia.Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest Australian city overall.
Australia ' s Highway 1 is a network of highways that circumnavigate the country, joining all mainland capital cities except the national capital of Canberra.At a total length of approximately 14,500 km (9,000 mi) it is the longest national highway in the world, surpassing the Trans-Siberian Highway (over 11,000 km or 6,800 mi) and the Trans-Canada Highway (8,030 km or 4,990 mi).
The Canberra line, an 8 km (5.0 mi) branch line from Queanbeyan to Canberra, was opened in 1914. [126] A 34 km (21 mi) branch line from Bungendore to Captains Flat was opened in 1940 and closed in 1969, a few years after the closure of the local mines. [127] The Crookwell line opened from Goulburn to Crookwell in 1902; it closed in 1985. [128]