Canberra panorama

This is a view of central Canberra from Dairyfarmers Hill this afternoon. In 1911, the  site was chosen for the national capital largely because the Molonglo River offered opportunities for a central waterway feature. American landscape architects Walter Burley Griiffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin realised this vision by way of the Scrivener Dam, shown in the extra. The central lake is now called Lake Burley Griffin.The stately home in the extra, to the left of the dam and almost hidden by trees, is Yarralumla, the residence of the Governor-General of Australia.