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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.
As of 2013, neither the Weston Creek Centre nor the Gungahlin Town Centre contain any substantive Australian government department head office. Town centres also provide services such as mechanical workshops, gyms, pubs and clubs, cinemas, restaurants and fast food outlets, petrol stations and car dealerships.
Gungahlin Place is a transport interchange in Gungahlin Town Centre. It is the northern terminus of the Canberra Metro R1 Civic to Gungahlin line and is an important connection point between light rail and bus transport.
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.
Map of part of the Australian Capital Territory, with labels in red font denoting some (but not all) suburbs This is a list of suburbs in the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia. Suburbs are listed according to the districts in which they are located. Town centres, Group Centres, or suburbs containing group centres, appear in bold. (Some group centres or town centres have names ...
Casey is a suburb in Canberra, Australia, approximately 4 km from the Gungahlin Town Centre and about 13 km from the centre of Canberra. The suburb is named after Richard Casey, Baron Casey an Australian politician, diplomat and later the 16th Governor-General of Australia. It is bound by Horse Park Drive [2] and Clarrie Hermes Drive.
On the 9th of August, 1998, the then-Chief Minister, Trevor Kaine, opened unveiled and opened Gungahlin Marketplace. At this point in time, the Centre was a lone building among paddocks which would later become the Gungahlin Town Centre. It featured around 30 retailers and services, including a Woolworths supermarket as its only major retailer.
The suburb is approximately 4 km from the Gungahlin Town Centre and 16 km from the centre of Canberra and bounded to the south by Horse Park Drive. One Tree Hill lies to the northwest on the border with New South Wales. The suburb is located in north Gungahlin adjacent to the suburbs of Moncrieff, Casey, Jacka and Ngunnawal.