City Hill
City Hill is a park located in Canberra, Australia, on one of the points of the Parliamentary Triangle, a feature of Walter Burley Griffin's plan for the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 2.5 au.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Also known as: “City Hill, Canberra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canberra Theatre Centre and National Library of Australia.
Canberra Theatre Centre
Theater building
Photo: Peter Ellis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canberra Theatre Centre, also known as the Canberra Theatre, is the Australian Capital Territory’s central performing arts venue and Australia's first performing arts centre, the first Australian Government initiated performing arts centre to be completed.
National Library of Australia
Library
Photo: Shkuru Afshar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Library of Australia, formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing…
Canberra Centenary Column
Monument
Photo: Mitch Ames, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Canberra Centenary Column is a sculpture in City Hill, Canberra, Australia. It was built to commemorate the city's centenary, and unveiled on 11 March 2014.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Civic and Acton Peninsula.
Civic
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canberra's downtown area, Civic is what is now Walter Burley Griffin's design for a Civic Centre. Established in 1927, this is Canberra's central business district and one of its oldest centres, surrounded by the rest of North Canberra, Acton and Lake Burley Griffin.
Acton Peninsula
Locality
The Acton Peninsula is located on the northern shore of Lake Burley Griffin, in the centre of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It was created when the lake was artificially built by damming the Molonglo River and excavating around it to create the desired shape.
Acton
Acton is a small affluent suburb west of Civic and is Canberra's university district, mostly taken up by the Australian National University. Right next to the ANU is the Australian National Botanic Gardens, containing some of the most diverse ranges…
City Hill
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.28203° or 35° 16′ 55″ southLongitude
149.12866° or 149° 7′ 43″ eastElevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)Open location code
4RPFP49H+5FOpenStreetMap ID
way 174944466OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“City Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “City Hill”
- Swedish: “City Hill”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “City Hill”. Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 2.5 au.