- O'Connor, Australian Capital Territory
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O'Connor
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Population: 4911 (2006 census)[1] Established: 1928 Postcode: 2602 District: North Canberra Assembly Electorate: Molonglo Federal Division: Fraser Suburbs around O'Connor: Kaleen Lyneham Bruce O'Connor Black Mountain Acton Turner 
O'Connor shops with the All Bar Nun pub in the foreground
O'Connor is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the North Canberra district. It was named after Richard Edward O'Connor (1851–1912), who was a judge in the High Court and a founder of the Australian constitution. Street names in O'Connor are named after explorers, Australian flora, legislators and pioneers. The suburb name was gazetted on 20 September 1928.[2]
O'Connor is bounded by Wattle and David streets, and also includes the Bruce/O'Connor ridge nature reserve, the hilly area with many trees that lies between the houses in O'Connor, and the Australian Institute of Sport (in the suburb of Bruce). Sports such as soccer, rugby and cricket are often played at the ovals at O'Connor district playing fields.
O'Connor has a small shopping centre with a pub/bar, supermarket, a couple of restaurants and a pharmacy.
In the central part of O'Connor are a series of cul de sacs which contain houses which are known as Tocumwal Houses. These are heritage listed ex-government housing which were transported from RAAF Station Tocumwal after the Second World War to cover the housing shortage in Canberra in the 1950s.[3]
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Suburb Amenities
The O'Connor Cooperative School (a government run early childhood school) and St Joseph's primary school (run by the Catholic Church) are both located in O'Connor. The Anglican church of St Philip's in O'Connor was dedicated in 1961, and consecrated in 1981. The O'Connor Ridge is a large strip of land that is use for bush walking and mountain biking and is a part of the Canberra Nature Park. At the O'Connor shops there can be found, the "All Bar Nun" bar and restaurant, a popular fish and chip shop called "Flat Heads", a small IGA supermarket, a hairdresser, a bicycle shop, a pharmacy, an Italian restaurant "Marinetti's", and a Vietnamese restaurant the "Tudo". Along the road from these are Canberra's Alliance Française, a Croatian Club and a Polish Club.
Geology
Calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation is overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This rock is the limestone of the original title of Canberra "Limestone Plains". The higher parts of O'Connor in the west are different. Towards the south near Black Mountain is the Black Mountain Sandstone. Towards the north, and including O'Connor Ridge can be found Greywacke from the Ordovician age Pittman Formation.
Black Mountain as viewed from Hardman Street, O'Connor.References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "O'Connor (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC81371&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "Suburb Name search results". ACT Planning & Land Authority. http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/actlic/places/search/suburbResults_new3.asp?suburbName=O'CONNOR&Submit=Continue. Retrieved 14 February 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "The Tocumwal Archive". ACT Heritage Council. http://thetocumwalarchive.photoaccess.org.au/html/index.html. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
External links
- All Bar Nun
- The Tudo Restaurant
- Tudo Restaurant (with map)
- St Philip's Church
- St Joseph's School
- O'Connor Cooperative School
Districts in Canberra: Belconnen · Gungahlin · Molonglo Valley · North Canberra · South Canberra · Tuggeranong · Weston Creek · Woden Valley
see also: Suburbs of Canberra · List of Canberra suburbsCoordinates: 35°15′33″S 149°07′16″E / 35.25917°S 149.12111°E
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