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Section six of a painting of Canberra capital site
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Title:
Section six of a painting of Canberra capital site
NFSA ID
1585338
Year
1916
This slide shows the sixth of six sections of the painting titled Cycloramic View of Canberra Capital Site, View Looking from Camp Hill, created by Robert Charles Coulter on 2 January 1911.
Areas shown in this slide are Mount Campbell, which is indicated as being 3,096 feet high, and Mount Mugga Mugga, which is 2,662 feet high.
Walter Scott Griffiths included these images in his presentation to demonstrate the natural beauty of the area but also to show that a lot of excavation would be needed to create Walter Burley Griffin’s design for Canberra, because it was such an undulating landscape.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.