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History of Lake Burley Griffin : ウィキペディア英語版 | History of Lake Burley Griffin
The history of Lake Burley Griffin, an artificial body of water in Canberra, the capital of Australia is a long one. Following its initial design in the 1910s, extensive political disputes occurred until it was finally built in the 1960s. ==History== Charles Robert Scrivener (1855–1923) recommended the site for Canberra in 1909, which was to be a planned capital city for the country. One of the reasons for the location's selection was its ability to store water "for ornamental purposes at reasonable cost".〔''Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra : Policy Plan'', p. 3.〕 In 1911, a competition for the design of Canberra was launched, Scrivener's detailed survey of the area was supplied to the competing architects.〔 The Molonglo River flowed through the site, which was a flood plain,〔Sparke, pp. 4–7.〕 and most of the proposals included artificial bodies of water.〔
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