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Australian Capital Territory

Introduction

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) was formally inaugurated by the Minister for Home Affairs, King O'Malley, on March 12, 1913. The site chosen was an area known as the Limestone Plains, situated approximately 300 km south of Sydney and approximately 655 km north of Melbourne. It is approximately 80 km from north to south and approximately 30k from east to west. The plains and hills of the north, where Canberra lies, rise to rugged ranges in the south and west of the Territory. The Murrumbidgee River flows across the Territory from the south-east to the north-west. Namadgi National Park in the south covers 40% of the ACT and partly borders the Kosciusko National Park.

The climate of the inland area of the ACT is a continental one with hot summers and crisp, sunny winters. Jervis Bay's southern headland is federal property, 7,200 ha having been given to the Commonwealth in 1915 under an Act of Parliament which stated the Capital should have access to the sea. Jervis Bay Territory is 35 km south east of Nowra and has a 35 km coastline, 4,400 ha of natural bushland, and an annex of the National Botanic Gardens for plants which are susceptible to frosts. It is also the site of the Royal Australian Naval Officer Training College, HMAS Creswell.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data has been analysed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available from the Australian Spatial Data Directory

Select one of the following Statistical Divisions to view information for that region:

The figures and text are reproduced with permission of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics

Area of region (ha): 241,843.98

Area

Agroforestry

Apples

Berry Fruit

Cattle and Calves

Cereals excluding Rice

Grapes

Other Livestock

Other Non-Cereal Crops

Other Vegetables

Pastures

Pears

Poultry

Sales of Livestock

Sheep and Lambs

Stone Fruit

Further information

Please Note: Not all the selected data items are available for every year or for every statistical region.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data have been analysed by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia to report them using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available through the Australian Spatial Data Directory.

The subset includes 436 data items for plant production and 40 data items for livestock which were commonly available in the AgStats database over the 15 year period and each year for respondents having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) above the cut-off of $22,500.

The data have been concorded by bringing data collected using different geographies to a consistent geographic base, being Version 2.6 Statistical Local Area (SLA) boundaries (ABS, 1996) and using the non-agricultural lands mask from the National Land and Water Resources Audit's National Landuse Map (1996/1997).

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