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  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 since the early 1920s as Prospect Parkway and Place, and subsequently Anzac Parade in association with the siting of the Australian War Memorial.

Anzac Parade has a central paved median of red gravel (crushed brick) with formal, symmetrically located raised concrete planter boxes with Hebe species, which were re-planted during 2012.  The median is broken in its length by an intersecting cross road.

On either side of the central avenue are three-lane bitumen-surfaced roads.  These are in turn flanked by a zone of irrigated grass defined by kerbing on the roadside and a parallel concrete path and retaining walls upslope.  The latter define the outermost zone of Eucalyptus tree plantation (now roughly three rows) with a mulched understorey and patches of non-irrigated grass species.

  Figure 8.  Anzac Parade from southwest
  Source:  Duncan Marshall

Rectangular areas of red gravel in the Anzac Park sections create cross axes, and mark an existing memorial or the site for a future memorial.

Anzac Parade has a strong relationship with the forecourt of the Australian War Memorial, outside the study area.

The treed plantation on either edge of the Land Axis reinforces the vista in both directions:  to the northeast that of the Australian War Memorial set against Mount Ainslie;  and to the southwest a reflective sliver of Lake Burley Griffin, and the Parliamentary/ Government complex set against Red Hill, with the Brindabella Range and Mount Bimberi beyond.

The strong formality of the landscape of the Anzac Parade composition contrasts with some other areas in the central Canberra landscape.

The Parade is home to 13 memorials related to military service.  These are located within terraced niches or landscape rooms of varied treatment and composition formed within the tree plantations either side of the Parade, with most niches having a crushed brick paved area fronting the roadway.  The two memorials closest to the Australian War Memorial do not have such paved areas.  The existing memorials are described separately below.  In addition, there are two niches currently without memorials.

Anzac Parade contains a range of other built elements including:
     * the three-lane divided bitumen roadway of Anzac Parade, as well as the roundabout at the northeast end of the Parade, and cross road at the Blamey Crescent/Currong Street intersection;
     * gravel/crushed brick paved areas including the wide Anzac Parade median or central strip, central part of the roundabout, as well as at the entrances to most of the memorial niches;
     * raised concrete planter beds in the