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    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...
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    It opened in 1914 (a year after the planned city was opened) on the Acton Peninsula, as the Canberra Community Hospital. It grew to become the major hospital...
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  • on 13 July 1997, when the city's superseded hospital buildings at Acton Peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin (that formerly constituted the Royal Canberra...
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    opened. It is located on Acton Peninsula in the suburb of Acton, next to the Australian National University. The peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin was...
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    the Queanbeyan hospital. In 1943 a new hospital was opened on the Acton Peninsula. Construction of the building was commenced in 1940. In 1942, the United...
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  • and Indigenous family and community history. AIATSIS is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. In the late 1950s, there...
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    from late 1823, when a sheep station was formed on what is now the Acton Peninsula by James Cowan, the head stockman employed by Joshua John Moore. Moore...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Chinese gold miners". www.nma.gov...
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    ISBN 0908127006. "Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra". National Museum of Australia. 28 August 2009. Archived...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Norm Wilson Papua New Guinea collection"...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia – Overland telegraph". National Museum...
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    Museum of Australia - ANZUS Treaty". www.nma.gov.au. Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula Canberra ACT 2601: National Museum of Australia. Archived from the...
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    the construction of a homestead by his stockmen on what is now the Acton Peninsula. Moore formally purchased the site in 1826 and named the property Canberry...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Military gorgets". www.nma.gov.au...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Separation of Tasmania". www.nma.gov...
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  • overseer John McLaughlin. He built a slab hut on what is now called Acton Peninsula. This was named Camberry later Canberry Cottage. A creek that ran through...
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    Retrieved 21 April 2024. "Cook claims Australia". Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula, Canberra: National Museum of Australia. 16 November 2022. Archived...
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  • corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Second World War conscription". www...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Franchise Act". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved...
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    epidemic". nma.gov.au. National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. Retrieved 2020-03-24. Peter Hiscock (12 December 2007). Archaeology...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Kumpupirntily: Lake Disappointment"...
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  • corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Curly Bardkadubbu". www.nma.gov.au...
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    corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Latvian national dress". www.nma.gov...
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  • corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Defining moments timeline". www.nma...
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    February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014. National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula. "Defining Symbols of Australia - Uluru". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved...
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  • corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Footy fans". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved...
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  • corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - Equal pay for women". www.nma.gov...
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    at Yarramundi Reach; however, it was changed later in the year to Acton Peninsula, where the National Museum of Australia is now located. looking across...
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    is now berthed as an exhibit outside the museum at a wharf on the Acton Peninsula, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra. PV Pyap runs tourist cruises from the...
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    Retrieved 16 July 2020. "Black Saturday bushfires". Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula, Canberra: National Museum of Australia. 7 February 2023. Archived...
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