Australian Capital Territoy
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is the capital territory
of the Commonwealth of Australia and It is approximately 150 kilometres
inland. Canberra is the capital of the Australian Capital Territory,
which is surrounded by New South Wales.
The ACT was conceived during the federation conventions of the
late 1800s as neutral location for a new National Capital. The Australian
Constitution provided that following Federation in 1901, land would
be ceded to the new Federal Government. The Territory was transferred
to the Commonwealth by the state of New South Wales in 1911, and
construction of the capital, Canberra, began in 1913.
The floral emblem of the ACT is the Royal Bluebell and the faunal
emblem is the Gang-gang cockatoo.
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