Approximately 85 per cent of the land in Malawi is held under customary tenure. This has resulted in the existence of a dual system of land law, and in the absence of effective land records covering the major part of the land area of Malawi. Malawi inherited this dual system of land law from the colonial period.
...area and provides most of Canberraâs water supply from three storage lakes. Another major tributary is the Molonglo River, which runs through the centre of the city, where it is dammed to form Lake Burley Griffin, one of the major landscape design features in the centre of Canberra. Smaller tributaries have been dammed to form ornamental lakes that serve also as basins for drainage in the...
Maribyrnong is a residential and industrial suburb enclosed on three sides by the Maribyrnong River, 6 km north-west of central Melbourne. The southern side is adjacent to Maidstone. Maribyrnong city is discussed at the end of this entry.Maribyrnong was spelled âMarriburnongâ in a map dated 1840.The name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning saltwater river. The main road through Maribyrnong is Raleigh Road, which joins Maribyrnong Road on the east side of the river. To the west its name changes to Cordite Avenue.aribyrnong city is a municipality formed on 15 December 1994, comprising the former Footscray city and the parts of Sunshine city known as Braybrook, Maidstone and Maribyrnong.