- Fly intoCBR — Canberra
- Within reach5 iconic destinations
Canberra and surrounds
Everything on this map is a day trip or a short hop from Canberra — the way Tourism Australia itself organises the country, around a gateway city and the destinations it opens up.
Day trips & destinations from here
The iconic destinations Tourism Australia groups under “Canberra and surrounds”.
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Jervis Bay Hyams Beach and some of the whitest sand in the world, on Canberra's nearest coast. -
Lake Burley Griffin The centrepiece of Walter Burley Griffin's planned capital, ringed by the national institutions. - Canberra's National Institutions The National Gallery, the Australian War Memorial and the National Museum — free, and world-class.
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Namadgi National Park Nearly half the territory — alpine bushland, Ngunnawal rock art and dark skies. - Canberra District Wine Region Cool-climate Shiraz and Riesling from more than 30 cellar doors around the capital.
Before you go
Entry rules, safety and health for Australia: the UK government's FCDO travel advice for Australia (the definitive source), summarised with visas, currency and plugs on our Australia guide.
Full guide for Canberra is being written. The map and destination list above are live — see the Australian Capital Territory guide for the wider picture.
Photography
Images on this page are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and are photographs of the places named. Author, licence and source for each:
- Canberra — Thennicke / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Jervis Bay — Maksym Kozlenko / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Lake Burley Griffin — Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · source
- Namadgi National Park — Dhx1 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · source