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a brand new city called Canberra
Any special reason that they chose that as the name?
From "Yesterday's Canberra" link in my post above:
KAMBERRA - this Aboriginal word, spoken by tribes on the Limestone Plains, meant 'a meeting place' either of rivers or of tribes joining together to feast on Bogong Moths in mountains to the south.
From what I can gather, white settlers had already applied the name to the village and surrounding agricultural district before the major city was developed there.
P.S. Bogong moths shot from obscurity to international stardom during the Sydney Olympics. Did you see them?
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