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Gold Creek Village is a district located on the southern boundary of Nicholls, off the Barton Highway. It encompasses Gold Creek Square, Cockington Green, the Gold Creek golf course, the National Dinosaur Museum, Australian Reptile Centre, the George Harcourt Inn and Federation Square. An online private weather station is located in Nicholls.
The Gold Creek Homestead Site was a 41-hectare parcel of land, specifically Block 1 and 2, Section 23 Ngunnawal upon which the aforementioned complex was situated. Gold Creek Homestead was at one time at the centre of 'Gold Creek' a sprawling 1,594 hectare (3,940 acre) rural property, the largest in the Ginninderra district.
This is a list of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which houses Australia's capital city, Canberra.The Territory's education system consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6, high schools, which accommodate students from Years 7 to 10, and secondary colleges, which are specialist Year 11–12 institutions.
Deasland was commissioned by Ginninderra storekeeper, George Harcourt, between 1890 and 1893 and built by contractors Lazarus and Holland. [2] [3]: 104–105 [4] It was a six-room, single-story timber homestead with verandahs and iron roof.
Gold Creek (Queensland), Australia; Gold Creek (British Columbia), a tributary of the Fraser River, Canada; Golden River or Golden Water River, in the outer court of the Forbidden City, Beijing, China
Yarralumla is located in the central Canberra district of South Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, a federal territory.It is bordered by Lake Burley Griffin to the north, Commonwealth Avenue and Capital Hill to the east, Adelaide Avenue and the Cotter Road to the south, and Scrivener Dam, Lady Denman Drive and part of the Molonglo River to the west.
Pierces Creek is a former rural forestry settlement in the Australian Capital Territory in Australia, which was managed by Housing ACT since the 1980s. [1] The 13 homes at the settlement were destroyed during the 2003 Canberra bushfires [ 1 ] and have never been rebuilt despite a proposal by the ACT Government in the mid-2000s.
The Gold Rushes brought immigrants and linguistic influences from many parts of the world. An example was the introduction of vocabulary from American English , including some terms later considered to be typically Australian, such as bushwhacker and squatter . [ 11 ]