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Australia's capital, sited by political compromise between Sydney and Melbourne and laid out from a 1912 international competition won by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
-35.3, 149.1 · approximate · design competition 1911–1912; capital function from 1927; continuous growth since
On the world
- A place in: Future Cities · 14 places
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Connections
- comparable to Brasília — Both are competition-planned federal capitals of the same century with markedly different occupation outcomes.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates