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National Carillon Canberra

The National Carillon is on Queen Elizabeth II Island in Lake Burley Griffin. The 50m tall brutalist structure was a gift from the British Government to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Capital.

A carillon is a bell tower with a least 23 bells played by pressing keys on a keyboard. This makes carillons the largest musical instruments in the world. The National Carillon has 57 bells, making it large by world standards.

Aperture: ƒ/8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 22 September, 2009
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 64

Canberra, Holiday, Landscape 0

Black Mountain Tower View

The view of central Canberra from the Black Mountain Tower. Springbank Island is in the West Lake of Lake Burley Griffin, the National Museum of Australia on the Acton Peninsula. Behind the peninsula is the Commonwealth Memorial Bridge, complete with two 2-tonne stone from Rennie’s Waterloo Bridge in London in the North and South abutments.

Aperture: ƒ/8.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 22 September, 2009
Focal length: 9.6mm
ISO: 64

Holiday, Landscape, NSW 0

Illawarra Fly Panorama

The view from the Illawarra Fly Tree Top Walk. The steel tree top walk combined with the Illawarra Escarpment combine to give an amazing vantage point. From the Tree Top Walk we are looking across Lake Illawarra from over Albion Park on the near side across to Port Kembla, with the Tasman Sea on the horizon.