AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

		The main portion of the Australian Capital Territory, in the Southern Tablelands, is located 320 km from the coast The city of Canberra comprises 31 sq km while about 100000 hectares are reserved for parks and other public grounds. The remainder is pastoral and farming land together with forest. The land is generally elevated between about 500 and 700 m with a num ber of high peaks along the western border ranging between 1500 and 1900m. Rainfall averages between 600 and 700mm per year. Summer temperatures are around 20C while in midwinter snow is common and temperatures average 10C but often drop much lower.
		There are about 264 000 people living in the ATC today. In Canberra Central there are about 60 000 people, while in Belconnen, only 10km to the north, 86 000 people reside.This number is steadily increasing. Canberra Central is essentially an administrative-buisness district, and with surrounding towns so close, the trend is for people to buy homes on the bigger and cheaper blocks of land a little way out of the capital.
CANBERRA, the administrative centre of Australia. They say that it was built as a resualt of the despute between Melbourne and Sydney for the title of the Capital. So Canberra is sited half way between the two cities.The thing that I find fantastic is the street where the embassies of many countries are sited.What makes it so different is that they are all built accordding to their own tradition.