Watershed: Lake Burley Griffin celebrates 50 years

By Sally Pryor
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:19pm, first published August 29 2014 - 11:45am

Can you imagine Canberra without Lake Burley Griffin? No, me neither. But in fact, for the first 50 years of this young city's life as the national capital, what we now know as the lake was, at various times, a floodplain dotted with small farms and aboriginal artefacts, a golf course and a racetrack, a massive excavation site that would, from late 1963 onwards, begin filling with water.

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