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Lost. Canberra
Some places change.
The stories stay.

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Capital region.

Follow the roads beyond Canberra, through regional towns, villages and the country around Lake George.

A little further afield

13 areas to explore
Town & district

Braidwood

A Station Street. A Railway Hotel. But no trains.

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Town & district

Bungendore

A station photograph with a rather unexpected cargo.

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Town & district

Collector

The building behind a familiar roadside name.

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Town & district

Cooma

The Snowy Scheme, remembered one flag at a time.

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Historical postcard showing Auburn Street in Goulburn, with a central street lamp, shop verandas and a distant clock tower.Town & district

Goulburn

An established regional centre whose railway buildings and steam waterworks preserve the machinery of nineteenth-century growth.

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Town & district

Gundaroo

Gundaroo's surviving buildings record a village that shifted, grew and kept finding new uses for old places.

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Town & district

Lake Bathurst

A former railway stop whose school and church buildings preserve traces of nineteenth-century village life near a fluctuating wetland.

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Landscape

Lake George

An Aboriginal cultural landscape and closed lake basin whose water levels preserve an unusually long record of wet and dry years.

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Town & district

Murrumbateman

An old school, a community association and the first Clonakilla vines connect Murrumbateman's rural chapters.

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Intersection of Monaro and Crawford Streets, Queanbeyan.Town & district

Queanbeyan

Why Queanbeyan got a little more than a platform.

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Town & district

Sutton

School photographs, family papers and local memories make Sutton's history tangible.

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Town & district

Tarago

Tarago's station, goods shed and farming valley connect nineteenth-century transport with the later story of Woodlawn.

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A horse beside a fence and flowering garden plants in a rural landscape near Yass, with trees and distant hills.Town & district

Yass

Cooma Cottage, the town tramway and a community archive reveal different sides of Yass's history.

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