本题考查澳大利亚的联邦首都堪培拉。Canberra is the only one of Auatralia's major cities not located on a coast. It is situated in the Eastern Highlands roughly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne-a location chosen specifically to balance the power between those two great population centers.作为澳大利亚首都，堪培拉保持着悉尼和墨尔本这两大人口中心的权利平衡。