The Sydney Morning Herald - 26 August 1931
The Canberra Times - 4 June 1954
Clipping NLA Trove (here)
Newspaper clippings (I) has several more theories (here) | |
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS II
Another couple of theories on the origin of the Australian Capital's name. The first one from Mr Slater in 1931 basically attests to the word 'Canberra' being Gaelic and gives an explanation as to why it is so and the second from Mr Percival theorises that Canberra was named after a small tree that grew in the area, a small tree with red berries that apparently resembled a cranberry...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The mighty Murrumbidgee River is a trickling creek at Tharwa Bridge
Australia is in the grips of the worst drought in living memory. A walk down to the Murrumbidgee River found the lowest levels of flow that ...
-
If anyone is looking for a place to do a little gold prospecting might I suggest the mighty Goodradigbee in the Brindabella Valley. I'll... -
140 year old Gold Creek Homestead is a stone and brick building located off Gungahlin Drive in Ngunnawal. The Gold Creek Homestead is a gro... -
I spent Friday and Saturday of last week at the Blue Range campground out past Urriara on Brindabella Road. We hired the rustic corrugate... -
Australia is in the grips of the worst drought in living memory. A walk down to the Murrumbidgee River found the lowest levels of flow that ...
-
Located in the Canberra industrial suburb of Hume is Hill Station Homestead. The main homestead building of Hill station dates back to cir... -
When I was a young man I spent a fair bit of time exploring the mountains and plains of Canberra's Brindabella Mountain region. Of parti... -
The Waterloo Bridge ( info ) in London was built in 1817 and was destroyed during World War Two. Two stones from this famous bridge were ...
No comments:
Post a Comment