Living AUSTRALIA

Australian Capital Territory - Canberra - 1969
 


Approaching Canberra
 

View of Canberra from Mt. Pleasant, Lake Burley Griffin across the middle
 

The "Commonwealth Bridge" across the lake
 

Civic Square - and below, by night
 

 

Near town centre
 

Parliament House in 1969  (there is now a new Parliament House!)
 

Treasury Building
 

Sculpture/Fountain in front of Treasury Building
 

Treasury Building at night
 

Academy of Science
 

National Library with Henry Moore sculpture (compare with Israel National Library!)
 

In the Library: Glass Windows by Leonard French (and below)
 


Mount Stromlo Observatory - and below, the 6 foot diameter telescope
[ all destroyed by a bush fire in January 2003]
 

 

Lutheran Church
 

Australian War Memorial - and below
 


Mosaics in the War Memorials
 

The main Dome inside the War Memorial

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