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- Dec 21, 2016, 10:00 AM
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 571 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.280766, 149.1491835°16’51” S 149°8’57” E
Day 87
Canberra - War Memorial
December 21, 2016 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Bevor wir heute Mittag Canberra verlassen haben, haben wir uns heute noch das War Memorial Canberras angesehen. Ein bisschen Kultur und Politik muss ja auch mal sein 🙈
Diese Gedenkstätte erinnert an die im ersten Weltkrieg gefallenen Soldaten.
Das Gebäude ist ein großartiges Gebilde und mit den vielen Bildern und der Stimme, welche alle Soldaten bei Namen nennt, ist dieser Ort tatsächlich mit einer traurigen Stimmung belastet.
Außerdem hat man von der Gedenkstätte hinab einen sehr schönen Ausblick über die Stadt 😊

Ich hatte auch das erste Mal einen Koala 🐨 auf dem Arm🙈 naja, es war eigentlich nur ein Plüschkoala. Aber irgendwann werde ich es hier bestimmt auch nochmal schaffen einen echten Koala auf den Arm zu nehmen 👆🏻😊🐨🇦🇺Read more
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Michelle Creasy Sydney October 2017
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- Oct 29, 2017, 11:41 PM
- 🌙 16 °C
- Altitude: 577 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.280434, 149.14935°16’50” S 149°8’56” E
Day 12
Culture and War
October 29, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Another leisurely breakfast in Manuka before starting with the National Museum.
I’d forgotten how museums like to store animals and fetuses in glass jars. It certainly wasn’t my favourite part of the museum. I’ve spent the last couple of days driving around Canberra thinking there was a massive orange crane in the distance, turns out it is part of the artwork of the museum.
The museum is certainly comprehensive, from indigenous Australians, through colonialism, to the present day. Apart from the bodies in jars, I enjoyed it.

Next stop was the National Gallery. I saw the Albert Namatjira and Sydney Nolan exhibitions but it was the small collection of impressionist paintings were what I enjoyed the most. I also say a Degas sculpture.

I finished up at the War Memorial. It was very confronting, I didn’t realise it was part museum as well as a memorial. The exhibitions are excellent but highlight the horrors.
I was there for the last post which was a fitting way to finish the tour.Read more
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Nancy Webb...Pat Bonetar Hash-Packing the World
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- Nov 21, 2018, 12:00 PM
- 🌬 70 °F
- Altitude: 1,903 ft
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.28088, 149.1487135°16’51” S 149°8’55” E
Day 171
Australian War Memorial in Canberra
November 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 70 °F
Meat and I are at the War Museum in Canberra. What an incredible place.

So long [for now] and thanks for all the fish. ✌️
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Traveler Robinsons Round Oz
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- Dec 18, 2022, 2:00 PM
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 571 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.280304, 149.14850435°16’49” S 149°8’55” E
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Day 46
War Memorial Canberra
December 18, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
A visit to the Australian War Museum! Wow!!! This place is huge and really well done. It's totally worth a visit.

It was nice to see the operations that Chris was enlisted in for the children, and reflect on the difficulties faced by the military through the ages. Incredible!Read more
Traveler My bigger two loved this area, but Pip had a screaming fit of hysterics and we had to leave the whole war memorial!! (I was there alone with the kids…) The big two still haven't got over it! 😱
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Traveler omg! that's so funny!!!! Bella was border line like that all day that we were going to have to leave!
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Sydney
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- Sep 25, 2023, 10:15 AM
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 576 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.280587, 149.14927135°16’50” S 149°8’57” E
Day 5
Canberra Army Museum
September 25, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Wee trip to museum
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Shane Hutchinson My Gap Year
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- Dec 12, 2016
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 571 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.28117, 149.1484135°16’52” S 149°8’54” E
Day 9
Day 9
December 12, 2016 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Last day today with Shona, I dropped her at the airport after spending the day at the War Memorial. What an amazing place, such an emotional place.
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Traveler Aussie Road Trip June 2022
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- Jun 28, 2022, 3:10 PM
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Altitude: 584 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.281625, 149.14987535°16’54” S 149°8’60” E
Day 23
Day 23 - Canberra ACT
June 28, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
The day started off with a -4 degree morning, although I didn’t see it or feel it as I stayed tucked up in bed until 9am! 😴
Once I ventured out I went to Mount Ainslie lookout, as the morning is the best for photos with the sun behind you. The cold start was followed up by a beautiful sunny but cool day made for perfect conditions for photos 📷
I followed up with stroll along ANZAC Ave, which I have always wanted to do. However, all my previous trips to Canberra were accompanying 40 school students! It was so nice to be a real tourist today! The memorials along the Avenue are spectacular.
This afternoon I wandered the halls of the Australian War Memorial. Did a bit of research first and it allowed me to find two of my great uncles who were killed during WW2.
Harold Shore was in the RAAF and was shot down over Ambon in Indonesia early 1942.
Fred Hill was in the AIF and from all reports was quite a rebel who really didn’t want to be there. He managed to make it through the war only to be killed in a beach assault in Borneo in one of the last battles of 1945.
I am sitting writing this while waiting to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the War Memorial tonight.Read more
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Traveler East coast Australia 2017
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- May 1, 2017, 1:55 PM
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 581 m
- Australia Australian Capital Territory Campbell Ataturk Memorial Garden -35.2808, 149.14878935°16’51” S 149°8’56” E
Day 7
War memorial
May 1, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
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