In addition, there are the teams, Darwin, Canberra and Hobart, who were fictional teams.

Sometimes foreigners visiting the countries mentioned above use the " two-fingered salute " without knowing it is offensive to the natives, for example when ordering two beers in a noisy pub, or in the case of the United States president George H. W. Bush, who, while touring Australia in 1992, attempted to give a " peace sign " to a group of farmers in Canberra — who were protesting about U. S. farm subsidies — and instead gave the insulting V sign.

The Commonwealth Club, Canberra Club, Newcastle Club, Brisbane Polo Club, the Kelvin Club in Melbourne, and both Royal Automobile Clubs mentioned above allow women to enjoy full membership.

This last mentioned camp was known as White City Camp and it was removed in the early 1930s when the land was required for building Canberra High School ( now the Art School ).

It owes it origin to the establishment, twenty years earlier, of a modest science centre in a vacant primary school in Canberra.

Over the past 40 years, the NESTI group has developed a series of documents, known as " Frascati Family ", that includes manuals on R & D ( Frascati Manual ), innovation ( Oslo Manual ), human resources ( Canberra Manual ), technology balance of payments and patents as science and technology indicators.

The " Lionel-Murphy SNR " was a nitrogen-abundant supernova remnant ( SNR ) N86 in the Large Magellanic Cloud named by astronomers at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory in acknowledgement of Murphy's interest in science and because of SNR N86's perceived resemblance to a Canberra Times cartoonist's depiction of his large nose ( prior to surgery ).

He completed his university studies at the Australian National University ( ANU ) in Canberra, graduating with a bachelor of science with honours in 1972 and completing his PhD in 1975.

Created as a science communication exercise for 2009 National Science Week in Australia, it collected nearly 26, 000 messages that were beamed by NASA's Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex on 28 August 2009.

He became a professor of political science at the University of New South Wales, and was Chancellor of the University of Canberra from 1992-1995.

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

In Canberra she read and was impressed by one of Cairns ' books, The Quiet Revolution, and arranged to meet him.

After his death, Groom bequeathed many of the books from his personal library to the Canberra University College Library ( which would become the Australian National University's Chifley Library ) including the famed ' The Rise of the Dutch Republic ' by J. L.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

* Eustathios of Thessaloniki ' The Capture of Thessaloniki ' ( Byzantina Australiensia 8 ), Canberra 1988.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

Tidbinbilla is a locality to the south-west of Canberra that features the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by the United States ' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as part of its Deep Space Network.

Canberra is notorious for hot, dry summers, and cold winters with occasional fog and frequent frosts.

Notable geological formations in the Australian Capital Territory include the Canberra Formation, the Pittman Formation, Black Mountain Sandstone and State Circle Shale.

In the 2006 census the population of the ACT was 333, 667, of which only 869 were outside Canberra.

The ACT median weekly income for people aged over 15 was in the range $ 600 –$ 699 while the population living outside Canberra was at the national average of $ 400 –$ 499.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

Bimberi Peak being the highest mountain in the ACT approximately south west of Canberra.

Nevertheless, Canberra stands as an exemplary city design and is located halfway between the ski slopes and the beach.

The urban areas of Canberra are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs as well as other industrial areas and villages.

The North and South Canberra districts are substantially based on Walter Burley Griffin's designs.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

Almost all educational institutions in the Australian Capital Territory are located within Canberra.

In February 2004 there were 140 public and non-governmental schools in Canberra ; 96 were operated by the Government and 44 are non-Government.

The two main tertiary institutions are the Australian National University ( ANU ) in Acton and the University of Canberra ( UC ) in Bruce.

There are also two religious university campuses in Canberra: Signadou is a campus of the Australian Catholic University and St Mark's Theological College is a campus of Charles Sturt University.

Tertiary level vocational education is also available through the multi-campus Canberra Institute of Technology.

Designs such as the English Electric Canberra could fly faster or higher than contemporary fighters.

Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D. C., in the United States, Canberra in Australia, and Brasília in Brazil.

* Abydos ( Stargate ), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universe

* Ark ( Noon Universe ), a fictional planet in a series of novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The locations where these adventures occur, such as a city, country, planet or an entire fictional universe, are also sometimes called ' campaigns ' but are more correctly referred to as ' worlds ' or ' campaign settings '.

* Eve, a fictional planet in the space simulator Kerbal Space Program

Internet-based fictional languages are hosted along with their " conworlds " on the Internet, and based at these sites, becoming known to the world through the visitors to these sites ; Verdurian, the language of Mark Rosenfelder's Verduria on the planet of Almea, is a flagship Internet-based fictional language.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.

Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos — the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman's home planet of Krypton.

* Nemesis, a fictional planet in the Sailor Moon Japanese adventure series

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

* Thalassa, a fictional planet ( a waterworld ) in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Songs of Distant Earth

* Risa ( Star Trek ), a fictional planet

In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as " Orth " ( long " o ") or " oyth ", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located.

In the 22nd century of the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan High Command is apparently a form of military government which controls both the Vulcan space fleet and most of the planet itself.

* Port Arthur, BattleTech Universe's fictional planet

* Gand, a fictional planet within the Star Wars galaxy

The book takes place on a fictional planet based on late-Middle Ages Europe.

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and Empire series of science fiction novels.

* Remus ( Star Trek ), a fictional planet in Star Trek

Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer ( 1918-2009 ).

* New Alexandria, a city that takes place on a fictional planet called Reach in the Xbox 360 game Halo: Reach

* The fictional planet Barcelona, mentioned in the Doctor Who episode " The Parting of the Ways "

Krypton is a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe, and the native world of the super-heroes Superman and, in some tellings, Supergirl and Krypto the Superdog.

Oa is a fictional planet that lies at the center of the DC Comics universe.

The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey, is an Earth-like planet in the fictional constellation of Kasterborous.