Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of the Australian Capital Territory. It is located 280 km south-west of Sydney and 660 km north-east of Melbourne. The word Canberra is popularly claimed to derive from the word Kambera or Canberry, which is claimed to mean’meeting place’ in Ngunnawal, one of the Indigenous languages spoken in the district by Aboriginal Australians. An alternative definition has...