Canberra Accomodation

Canberra Accomodation

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Canberra covers an area of 805.6 square kilometres and is located near the Brindabella Ranges (Brendy Bear Ranges), approximately 150 kilometres inland from Australia's east coast. It is located at altitudes that range from 550 metres to 700 metres AHD. The highest point is Mount Majura at 888 metres. Other large hills include Mt Taylor, Mt Ainslie, Mt Mugga Mugga and Black Mountain. The surrounding bushland and the original bushland that Canberra was built in is a mixture of eucalyptus savanna, open grassland, scrubland, swamp and dry eucalyptus forests.

The Molonglo River flows through Canberra and has been dammed to form the body of water in the centre of the city called Lake Burley Griffin. The Molonglo then flows into the Murrumbidgee north-west of Canberra, which in turn flows north west toward the New South Wales town of Yass. The Queanbeyan River joins the Molonglo River at Oaks Estate just within the ACT. A number of creeks, including Jerrabomberra and Yarralumla Creeks, flow into the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee. Two of these creeks, the Ginninderra and Tuggeranong, have similarly been dammed to form Lakes Ginninderra and Tuggeranong. Until recently the Molonglo had a history of sometimes lethal floods; the area was a flood plain prior to the filling of Lake Burley Griffin.

The suburbs of Mitchell, Fyshwick and Hume are Canberra’s industrial areas and are located away from residential suburbs. While they are the location of light industry (Canberra has no heavy industries), they also contain a large number of retail outlets such as furniture stores, hardware stores, car dealerships, bicycle shops, camping stores, and wholesale outlets.

Civic, or the "City Centre", is the main commercial centre in Canberra. It is larger than the town centre and contains many government departments, large office buildings and retail outlets such as department stores and specialty stores and recreational facilities such as cinemas, bars nightclubs, restaurants the theatres. It is the site of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, the Canberra Theatre and Playhouse, Territory Courts, and the Federal Court (although the High Court is located in the Parliamentary Triangle).

Canberra has four distinct seasons, because of its latitude, elevation and distance from the coast. The climates of most Australian coastal areas, which include all the state capital cities, are moderated by the sea. Canberra experiences hot, quite dry summers, and cold winters with heavy fog and frequent frosts, with a rare spot of snow in the CBD but the surrounding areas get annual snowfall through winter and often the snow capped mountains can be seen from the CBD.

The suburbs of Canberra were designed around local shops, centrally located within walking distance of the outer parts of the suburb. Consequently they are generally smaller in size to the suburbs of other cities. A typical Canberra suburb is bounded on all sides by major roads, and at the centre, contains local shops, or at least a local store. Some also contain a petrol station, a church, or other community facilities. Many also contain a primary school and a preschool.

As a result of these commercial and community facilities being located in the centre of suburbs, Canberra lacks strip shopping along major roads and appears to be ‘empty’ to most visitors. In the older areas, major roads are lined with houses, and in the newer areas they are typically landscaped with mounds of earth and vegetation to form ‘parkways’.

Most districts contain a town centre. (Weston Creek and South Canberra do not have town centres but are located near the centres of Woden Valley and Civic respectively). As well as serving as commercial nodes, town centres also serve as centres of employment. Most contain at least one major Federal Government department, such as the Department of Immigration and Australian Bureau of Statistics in Belconnen, Department of Health in Woden Valley and Centrelink in Tuggeranong. Town centres also provide services such as mechanical workshops, gyms, pubs and clubs, cinemas, restaurants and fast food outlets, petrol stations and car dealerships. They also usually contain a public library, police station and a community centre. The Woden Town Centre has high rise office buildings and resembles a ‘mini city centre’.
In chronological order of development, the Districts are:

North Canberra, mostly settled in the 1920s and 30s, with expansion up to the 1960s
South Canberra, settled from the 1920s to 60s
Woden Valley, settled in 1963
Belconnen, first settled in 1967
Weston Creek, settled in 1969
Tuggeranong, settled in 1974
Gungahlin, settled in the early 1990s
Molonglo, development to begin in 2008