Australian Capital Territory Road Photo Gallery:
Tourist Drive 6 - Embassies Tour

The Embassies Tour is designed to give a visitor easy access to view the various façades of the embassies dotted through the southern suburbs of Canberra. Suburbs along the route include Yarralumla, Deakin and Barton, with the route skirting past Parliament House and Capital Hill.

Roads along the route include Brisbane Avenue, National Circuit, Dominion Circuit, Melbourne Avenue, Hopetoun Circuit, Schlich Street, Empire Circuit, Akarna Street, Moonah Place, Perth Avenue, Darwin Avenue, Forster Crescent, Coronation Drive, State Circle and Commonwealth Avenue.

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Gowrie Drive, Red Hill
TD6 has an interesting run, including this section up to the Red Hill Lookout. July 2006..

Image © Paul Rands

Strickland Crescent
Heading up Red Hill on Strickland Crescent

Image © Paul Rands

Melbourne Avenue
In one of the most exclusive areas of the ACT, outside Canberra Girls Grammar School. This is looking northeast - this side of the street is Deakin, the other side is Forrest. July 2006 .

Image © Paul Rands

Approaching State Circle
Melbourne Avenue as it approaches Capital Hill and State Circle, July 2006. Note the hand painted Right Lane Must Turn Right sign. Hand painted signs were once extremely common across the ACT.

Image © Paul Rands

State Circle Road Name Sign
Older style road name signage on State Circle at Capital Hill. This sign would have been a 1990s direct remake of an old black sign. July 2006.

Image © Paul Rands

Eastbound on State Circle
ID sign for Hobart Avenue as you head east on State Circle near Parliament House and the suburb of Forrest. July 2006.

Image © Paul Rands