* 104. 7 ( Canberra ) Contemporary hit radio ( http :// www. 1047. com. au /)

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.

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.

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.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

At one time there were four missions in the South Pacific area in Canberra, Sydney, Wellington and Suva in Fiji.

File: Quad axle coach-Canberra. jpg | An Austral Pacific bodied Scania K113TRBL 14. 5m Quad-axle coach in Canberra, Australia

Canberra: Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.

She was the head girl at Adi Cakobau School in 1968, and went on to graduate from the University of the South Pacific and from the Australian National University in Canberra.

From 1957-1951, he was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies ( RSPAS ), which is part of the Australian National University in Canberra.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

He taught at the University of Malaya ( in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur ) before going to Canberra in 1968 to become Professor of Far Eastern History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies ( RSPAS ) at Australian National University.

Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1965.

* Aspects of meaning in fieldwork, in Tom Dutton, Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon ( eds ), The language game: Papers in memory of Don C. Laycock, Pacific Linguistics, C 110, 22 pp., Canberra: ANU, 1993

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.