The National Carillon, Canberra

We sat in the gallery grounds beside Lake Burley Griffin and listened to a carillonist recital.

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March 19th 2014
Next morning, after breakfast, we drove straight into Canberra and managed to find free parking for the day under the National Portrait Gallery. We walked to the National Gallery of Australia, where the exhibition I had been waiting to see for months was being shown – Gold and the Incas: Lost Worlds of Peru. It had more than 220 objects from the cultures that spanned 3,000 years before the Spani ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Australian Capital Territory » Canberra

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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