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Gungahlin is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district with the same name; Gungahlin. The postcode is 2912. Gungahlin is the name for the entire district, and also the town centre, but it is also the name of the suburb which Gungahlin Town Centre is in. The edges of the suburb are on Horse Park Drive, Gundaroo Drive and Gungahlin Drive.
Gungahlin is the first district encountered when travelling to Canberra from Melbourne or Sydney via the Barton Highway. The district is a set of contiguous residential and industrial suburbs that surround a town centre, together with undeveloped pastoral leases that border with the state of New South Wales to the north, north-east and east.
Palmerston (/ ˈ p ɑː m ər s t ə n /) is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Gungahlin.The postcode is 2913. The suburb is named after George Thomas Palmer (1784–1854) who established a settlement in the Canberra region in 1826 called Palmerville, which was later renamed Ginninderra.
Franklin (postcode: 2913) is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. It is named after the novelist Miles Franklin . Most streets in Franklin are named after female Australian writers. [ 2 ]
The landscape slopes to the south east, with a line of hills forming a ridge on the north west side making a backdrop. The low point is 622 metres at the roundabout joining Gungahlin Drive, Horse Park Drive and Clarrie Hermes drive. The highest point is 726 metres in the north west corner. Casey is underlaid by rocks from the Silurian period.
Crace (/ k r eɪ s /) is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. It was named after Edward Kendall Crace an original settler in the Gungahlin area. Streets in Crace are named after parishes and land divisions from colonial times. [2] It is bounded by the Barton Highway, Gundaroo Drive
Mitchell (postcode: 2911) is a light-industrial estate of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. Mitchell was named in honour of Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, an explorer of inland New South Wales and Surveyor-General of New South Wales. The streets in Mitchell are named after Australian industrialists. [2]
Taylor is a suburb in Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia. Development of the suburb began in 2017. Development of the suburb began in 2017. It is named after magazine publisher Florence Mary Taylor , who was editor of and writer for several Australian building industry journals including the influential Building magazine.