Delve into Molonglo
The district Molonglo of in Australian Capital Territory is a district located in Australia a little south-east of Canberra, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 20°C / 69 °F
Morning Temperature | 11°C / 53 °F |
Evening Temperature | 20°C / 68 °F |
Night Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 47% |
Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 11 km/h (7 mph) from South-West |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 95% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
27°C (81 °F)
16°C (60 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
30°C (86 °F)
17°C (63 °F)
Heavy intensity rain, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
21°C (70 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
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Videos from this area
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PC-21 HB-HZD over Canberra.mp4
Pilatus undertook a month long demonstration tour of Australia in February/March 2010 with its PC-21 turboprop military trainer, a contender for the ADFs Project Air 5428 Pilot Training System...
CBR: Canberra Qantas Business Class Lounge
Full review at http://loungeindex.com/Oceania/Australia/CBR/Qantas%20Business%20Class%20Lounge/index.htm from http://loungeindex.com The Canberra business class lounge brings together ...
CBR: Canberra Qantas Club
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How to pickup a rental car from Canberra Airport | Redspot
A quick video that will show exactly how to collect a rental vehicle at Redspot Sixt at Canberra Airport. Website: https://www.redspot.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redspotcarrentals...
4486 and AK cars at Queanbeyan
4486 hauled the AK inspection cars to Canberra on 24 March 2004. This is a low res video taken with a Fuji Finepix S5000Z. Don't bother rating - I know it's poor quality.
The First Train To Canberra 100 Year Recreation
On the 25th May 1914, the first train (engine 1210) left Queanbeyan for Canberra. On the 25th May 2014, the Canberra Railway Musuem recreated this with another engine. More information about...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory
Fyshwick is a retail and light industry suburb of Canberra and is located east of the South Canberra district. On Census night 2006, Fyshwick had a population of 54 people. It has many motor vehicle dealers, stores selling home furnishings and hardware, and stores that sell goods wholesale. There are also some fast-food outlets. It was named after Sir Philip Fysh, a Tasmanian politician who assisted in bringing about Australia's Federation.
Royal Military College, Duntroon
The Royal Military College, Duntroon is the Australian Army's officer training establishment. It was founded at Duntroon, in the Australian Capital Territory, in 1911 and is situated on picturesque grounds at the foot of Mount Pleasant near Lake Burley Griffin, close to the Department of Defence headquarters at Russell Hill.
Duntroon, Australian Capital Territory
Duntroon is a suburb of the city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory.
Kingston, Australian Capital Territory
Kingston is the oldest and most densely populated suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named after Charles Cameron Kingston, the former Premier of South Australia and minister in the first Australian Commonwealth Government. It is adjacent to the suburbs of Barton, Fyshwick, Griffith and Manuka. The suburb of Kingston is situated about 4 km from the centre of Canberra.
Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory
Narrabundah is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 'Narrabundah' is a Ngunnawal word meaning 'bird of prey', celebrated in the sculpture by Andy Townshend and Suzie Bleach, in the park opposite the main shops. The name Narrabundah was taken from the parish of Narrabundah, a part of the cadastral division of Murray. This parish existed when the land was administered by New South Wales.
City of Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan City is a local government area located in south eastern New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory, the Queanbeyan River, the Molonglo River, the Kings Highway and the Sydney-Canberra railway. The Mayor of Queanbeyan City Council is Tim Overall, an independent politician.
South Canberra
South Canberra or the Inner South is a central district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. South Canberra is located to the south of Canberra's city centre, on the south bank of Lake Burley Griffin. It is one of the oldest parts of Canberra, and is built in part in accordance to Walter Burley Griffin's designs. Unlike the later districts in Canberra that are built as separate satellite cities, South Canberra is only separated from North Canberra by Lake Burley Griffin.
Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory
Pialligo is a rural suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The name Pialligo has been used for the area since at least 1820, and is probably of Aboriginal origin. It was also the name for the parish in the area. Streets in Pialligo are named with Aboriginal words. Beltana Road in Pialligo is home to many of Canberra's nurseries. Canberra International Airport is located adjacent to Pialligo across Pialligo Avenue.
Symonston, Australian Capital Territory
Symonston is a primarily industrial and agricultural suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Symonston is named after Sir Josiah Symon a Legislator, Federalist and one of the Founders of the Constitution of Australia. Located in Symonston are the Alexander Maconochie Centre (gaol), Periodic Detention Centre and Symonston Temporary Remand Centre and three caravan parks: Canberra South Motor Park, Sundown Village and Narrabundah Longstay Caravan Park.
HMAS Harman
HMAS Harman is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) communications and logistics facility. The main base is located in the Australian capital of Canberra, and is geographically recognised as the suburb of Harman (postcode 2600). Established in the late 1930s as the Royal Australian Navy Wireless/Transmitting Station Canberra, the facility was commissioned into the RAN as a stone frigate in 1943.
Mount Pleasant (Australian Capital Territory)
Mount Pleasant in Canberra overlooks the Australian Defence Force Academy and Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia. On the top of the hill is a memorial to all ranks of the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery. Mount Pleasant is a gun saluting station from which Australia's Federation Guard provides 21-gun salutes on ceremonial occasions.
Narrabundah College
Narrabundah College is a government college that teaches the last two years of secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory. It was the first school in Australia to offer the International Baccalaureate, starting the programme in February 1978. Despite attempts to close the college in the late 1970s due to falling enrolments, the school now has a full enrolment and an extensive waiting list.
Jerrabomberra, New South Wales
Jerrabomberra is a suburb of Queanbeyan in south eastern New South Wales, Australia. Jerrabomberra consists of three sections, The Park, The Heights, and Lakeview. The Park and the Heights are divided by Edwin Land Parkway. At the 2006 census, Jerrabomberra had a population of 8,747 people. Jerrabomberra is derived from the local Aboriginal place name meaning ‘boy frightened by storm’.
Letchworth, New South Wales
A quiet and predominantly Italian area of Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, Letchworth is home to West Primary School, the Queanbeyan Kangaroos Club, some light industrial areas and the Sacred Heart Church (now redeveloped). A railway station with the same name operated between 1926 and 1956 at the Tharwa Road crossing, although this is currently in Jerrabomberra.
Canberra railway station
Canberra railway station is located in Kingston, Australian Capital Territory. The station is the terminus for CountryLink rail services from Sydney and interchange point for CountryLink coach services to Cootamundra, Bombala and Eden, and V/Line coach services to Bairnsdale. It is the only operating railway station in the ACT. In March 1913 work began on a new 8.5 kilometre rail link from the capital to Queanbeyan on the Goulburn to Bombala branch line.
St Edmund's College, Canberra
St Edmund's College, is a private, Catholic, day school for boys, located in Griffith, a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The college was established in 1954 by the Christian Brothers as St Edmund's War Memorial College. It was opened to meet the demand for a Catholic Education school in the region and was the first Catholic Secondary Boys' College established in the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian Defence Force Academy
The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) is a tri-service military Academy that provides military and tertiary academic education for junior officers of the Australian Defence Force in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Tertiary education is provided by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra campus, which is the awarding body for ADFA qualifications.
Queanbeyan High School
Queanbeyan High School is a New South Wales Government School situated in a large service centre just beyond the limits of the Australian Capital Territory. Queanbeyan is a city of 50,000 people located on the Queanbeyan River 291 km south-west of Sydney via Tarago and Bungendore and 18 km south-east of the centre of Canberra. The current principal is Mr John Clark.
Alexander Maconochie Centre
The Alexander Maconochie Centre, an Australian minimum to maximum security prison and remand centre for male and female inmates, is located in Hume, Australian Capital Territory. The facility is operated by ACT Corrective Services, an agency of the Justice and Community Safety Directorate of the Government of Australian Capital Territory.
St Clare's College, Canberra
St Clare's College is a private Roman Catholic school in the south Canberra suburb of Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, catering for girls from grades 7 to 12. The college was established in 1965. As of 2012 St Clare's had an enrolment of approximately 1200 students, making it the largest Catholic girls' secondary school in Canberra. All students participate in a broad academic program and many extra-curricular activities within the context of the Catholic tradition.
United States Army Air Forces in Australia
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established a series of airfields in Australia for the collective defense of the country, as well as for conducting offensive operations against the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. It was from these airports and airfields in Australia, that Fifth Air Force was able to regroup, re-equip and begin offensive operations against the Empire of Japan after the disasters in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies during 1942.
Jerrabomberra Creek
Jerrabomberra Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Capital Country region spanning both New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Jerrabomberra is derived from the Aboriginal word, meaning "afraid of lightning". The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Jerrabomberra Creek are the Aboriginal people of the Ngunnawal tribe.
Canberra Railway Museum
Canberra Railway Museum is run by the ACT division of the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS). The museum houses displays of historic locomotives, passenger cars, freight vehicles, track machinery and railway memorabilia. The museum precinct also serves as a base for the society's rail operations. The Society preserves railway history, particularly that of Canberra and the southern districts of New South Wales, for the enjoyment and enlightenment of present and future generations.
Narrabundah Ballpark
Narrabundah Ballpark is an 1,500 capacity ground in Canberra, Australia. It was redeveloped in 2010 for use by the Canberra Cavalry for the Australian Baseball League, the Australian Capital Territory Government funded the $1,000,000 upgrade.
Fairbairn, Canberra
Fairbairn was a base of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) located in Australia's national capital, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Over the years the name of the establishment, and the use of the land, has changed. The land occupies an area North and East of the runways at what is currently known as Canberra International Airport.