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fringing parks on the northern shore, and the northern part is the long thin strip of land about Anzac Parade which terminates in a roughly triangular area containing the Australian War Memorial.  The dominating landscape feature is the Land Axis running through all of these parts, and there is a broad symmetry to the area about the axis.

  Figure 6.  Aerial view of the Parliament House Vista and environs with Anzac Parade highlighted
  Source:  ACTmapi

The Land Axis is both a visual and physical element in the design of Canberra, and runs from Mount Bimberi in the Brindabella Ranges in the southwest to Mount Ainslie in the northeast. The Land axis within central Canberra is defined by tree plantations on either side of the land corridor and a central space with several different land surface treatments, and changes of level, to conceptually link Capital Hill with Mount Ainslie.

The surface treatment of the Land Axis within the Vista has been integrated into the different precincts, mostly grass or water, with the exception of the northern and southern foreshores of Lake Burley Griffin, and Anzac Parade.

The Land Axis corridor is most strongly defined as a formal landscape treatment in Anzac Parade.

The Parliamentary Zone comprises a complex hierarchical landscape pattern of roads, mature trees and lawn areas, with major institutional and government office buildings, and gardens located as isolated features within the zone.  This part has a number of cross axes.

The broader landscape surrounding Anzac Parade

Anzac Parade sits within a larger landscape area or setting which is an important context for it.  This setting includes:
     * Mount Ainslie as the forested backdrop to the Australian War Memorial and the northern terminal node of the Land Axis;
     * the remainder of Anzac Parade between Constitution Avenue and Parkes Way, as well as the Rond Point;
     * Capital Hill/new Parliament House, and Red Hill beyond, being the backdrop to the southern view along the Land Axis, and Red Hill as the near and visible approximate southern nodal point of the axis (the axis extends much further south to Mount Bimberi);
     * expressed in another way, the whole of the Land Axis;
     * the suburban setting either side of the Parade;  and
     * in a general sense the whole former Molonglo River valley in the vicinity, especially the Central Basin of the lake.

  Figure 7.  Aerial view of the Parliament House Vista looking north with Anzac Parade and Mount Ainslie top right
  Source:  NCA

Anzac Parade – National Heritage listed section

This northern part of the Land Axis, where it intersects with the upper slopes of the Molonglo River Valley, has been physically expressed through Charles Weston's planting and pavement patterns