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...
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History lost through lack of funding
The following ABC article laments the possible loss of many historical audio visual records that are waiting for digitising into modern fo...
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Update: 18/5/12 I like the solitude of Namadgi. I have always felt safe apart from a few encounters with pigs and wild dogs but that has... -
The now lost Wanniassa scar tree in 2010.. Recently an identified Aboriginal scar tree was wrongly cut down and mulched despite herit... -
Out past Uriarra to the west of Canberra is the Brindabella Road. The road rises to the peak of the Brindabella Mountain on the ACT border b... -
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Discovered in the early 1820's the small village of Queanbeyan was established on the Molonglo River on the 'Limestone Plains'. ... -
The difficult thing about photographing Aboriginal scarred trees is their position on the tree in relation to the time of the day, and the p... -
Tonight, after the storms, was a very still evening in Namadgi and a perfect opportunity to do a little thermal "spotlighting" of ...
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