Mount Ainslie

Mount Ainslie is a hill with an elevation of 843 metres (2,766 ft) AHD[1] that is located in the northeastern suburbs of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

[9] Mount Ainslie is the northernmost point of a land axis, planned by Walter Burley Griffin,[10] that stretches through North and South Canberra.

The design included his wife's inputs, and thus the view from the summit of Mount Aisle was named as Marion Mahony Griffin in 2013.

[11] In 2016 the ACT Government and the National Capital Authority ran a design competition for, with the aim to produce a ten-year strategy for the Mount Ainslie summit.

[12] The competition winners were Sue Barnsley and Jane Irwin, who proposed new parking, signage, picnic areas, lawns and plantings.

Photograph showing the view from Mount Ainslie, taken in the 1930s by an unknown photographer.
Panorama of the site for Canberra taken from Mt. Ainslie, 1910s / Frank Boland