Everything about Belconnen Australian Capital Territory totally explained
Belconnen (postcode 2617) is a suburb in the
Canberra district of
Belconnen. It contains the
Belconnen Town Centre,
Lake Ginninderra and residential areas, particularly to the south of the suburb,
Emu Ridge, where significant numbers of medium density dwellings are located. It is bounded by Ginninderra Drive, Aikman Drive, Eastern Valley Way, Belconnen Way and Coulter Drive. It has a number of parks such as Diddams Close Park and John Knight Memorial Park. The large
Westfield shopping mall is located at the
town centre. It has an area of 4.39 km² and was first settled in
1983.
Lake Ginninderra College is located on the shore of Lake Ginninderra near the Belconnen Town Centre.
Geology
Belconnen has the highest density of different kinds of rocks outcropping of any Canberra suburb.
It is at the intersection of two faults that form an X shape across Canberra. These are the Deakin Fault and
the Winslade Fault.
Green grey
rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics is in the south along Belconnen Way.
Deakin Volcanics purple rhyodacite is around the north end of Josephson St.
Deakin Volcanics green grey and purple rhyodacite goes east from Lathlain Dr to Chandler St.
Grey green
dacite and quartz
andesite Hawkins Volcanics is in a strip from the north west corner heading
south east between two branches of the Deakin fault to around Chandler St and Hennessey St.
A
porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white Feldspar crystals is west of Eastern
Valley Way and in between the two arms of Lake Ginninderra.
Glebe Farm
Adamellite intrusion is found to the south and east of Lake Ginninderra.
Ordovician Pittman Formation
greywacke is in the extreme south east and far north east of the town center.
Calcareous
Shale from the Yass Subgroup is to the west of Lake Ginninderra.
Dark grey and black laminated shale from the Acton Shale member is found on the west side of the Diddams Close Park in between the two arms of the lake.
Image:BelconnenOffices.JPG|Government Department buildings
Image:BelconnenShops.JPG|Shops in Belconnen Town Centre
Image:BelcoLakeOffices.JPG|Apartemnts and Shops in Belconnen Town Centre located near Lake Ginninderra
Image:Westfield_Belconnen.JPG|Westfield Belconnen street entrance
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