Do you really know which is the capital city of Australia without googling it first?
It is actually quite shocking how many people get it wrong, I had no idea it was such a common mistake.
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
beckyromero · 36-40, F
Canberra.
The easy way to remember this is that HMAS [i]Canberra[/i] was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island (scuttled after heavy damage). Canberra was one of only two large cruisers in the Australian Navy, HMAS [i]Australia[/i] being the other.
![]()
The U.S. would later name one of its new Baltimore-class heavy cruisers after [i]Canberra[/i], the only ship in the U.S. Navy to have been named after a foreign capital.
The easy way to remember this is that HMAS [i]Canberra[/i] was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island (scuttled after heavy damage). Canberra was one of only two large cruisers in the Australian Navy, HMAS [i]Australia[/i] being the other.
The U.S. would later name one of its new Baltimore-class heavy cruisers after [i]Canberra[/i], the only ship in the U.S. Navy to have been named after a foreign capital.
