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Stromlo Forest Park is an outdoor recreation facility supported by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government. The park is located in western area of the ACT, adjacent to the Molonglo Valley , and about 15 minutes' drive from Canberra's Central Business District .
Mount Stromlo (formerly Mount Strom [1] [2] [citation needed]) is a mountain with an elevation of 770 metres (2,530 ft) AHD that is situated in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The mountain is most notable as the location of the Mount Stromlo Observatory .
Mount Stromlo Locality Map. On 18 January 2003, the devastating Canberra firestorm hit Mount Stromlo (which was surrounded by a plantation pine forest), destroying five telescopes, workshops, seven homes, and the heritage-listed administration building. [7] The only telescope to escape the fires was the 1886 15-centimetre Farnham telescope.
The district of Stromlo was established in 1996 under the Districts Act 1966 No. 5. [5] In 2003, the Stromlo Forest pine plantation and the Mount Stromlo Obseratory were destroyed in the 2003 Canberra bushfires. [6] [7] In 2009, the Stromlo Forest Park was opened as a new recreational precinct. [8]
The Great Melbourne Telescope was built by the Grubb Telescope Company in Dublin, Ireland in 1868, and installed at the Melbourne Observatory in Melbourne, Australia in 1869. . In 1945 that Observatory closed and the telescope was sold and moved to the Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canber
This is a list of mountains in the Australian Capital Territory.It includes all mountains with a gazetted name.. This list is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. [1]
The 1.27-metre (50 in) telescope at Mt. Stromlo was refurbished for the project, [1] and equipped with a prime-focus wide-field corrector, a dichroic beamsplitter and a pair of 16 megapixel CCD cameras (between 1992 and 1995, this was the largest CCD system in astronomical use). The cameras imaged a 42 by 42 arcminute square field of sky in two ...
Lee Valley Leisure Complex is located at Edmonton in the Middle Lea Valley, and is part of the Lee Valley Park. The site was formerly known as the Picketts Lock Sports Centre. In 2000 it was announced that the centre would be the site of the National Athletics Stadium, and it was intended that it would host the 2005 World Athletics ...