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November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 TheRamblingWombat Canberra

Scrivener Dam and Lake Burley Griffin

Readers familiar with Canberra, and readers of others of my Canberra reviews, will know that the ‘centre piece’ (or is it the pièce de résistance?) of the planned city of Canberra is a large artificial lake named after the man engaged to design a custom built capital city befitting of the then newly created Commonwealth of Australia (1901). Continue reading “Scrivener Dam and Lake Burley Griffin” →

July 30, 2017 TheRamblingWombat ACT - Namadgi National Park

Corin Dam – Namadgi

Canberra has four main sources of water and consequentially four dams. Three of these the Cotter, Bendora and Corin Dams are on the Cotter River, itself little more than a mountain stream, which flows through the western part of Namadgi National Park. Bendora and Corin (the subject of this review) Dams are within the National Park. Continue reading “Corin Dam – Namadgi” →

April 2, 2017April 4, 2017 TheRamblingWombat Nampo

West Sea Barrage and Museum

The 8km long, $4billion, West Sea Barrage across the mouth of the Taedong River was completed in 1986. It was designed to manage water levels in the Taedong River and alleviate irrigation and drinking water problems in the region. The exact location for the barrage was, we were told, personally selected by the Great Leader, Kim Il-sung, – engineering, hydrology and geology being but a few of this great man’s limitless talents. Continue reading “West Sea Barrage and Museum” →