- Kaleen, Australian Capital Territory
Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Kaleen
state = Australian Capital Territory
city = Canberra
caption =
lga =Belconnen
postcode = 2617
est = 1974
propval = $356,000 (2005) [http://allhomes.com.au/c/ah?a=uisu&i=411]
pop = 7,757 (2001 census)
ACTgov = Ginninderra
fedgov = Fraser
near-nw = Giralang
near-n =
near-ne = Crace
near-e =
near-w = Lawson
near-sw = Belconnen
near-s = Bruce
near-se = LynehamKaleen is a suburb in the
Canberra district ofBelconnen . The postcode is 2617. The suburb's name means ‘water ’ in the language of the Wiradhuri Aboriginal tribe of the Central West of New South Wales. It was gazetted on15 January 1974 . The streets are named after Australian Rivers.The suburb is next to Lyneham, Giralang, Lawson and Bruce. It is bordered by Baldwin Drive and Ginninderra Drive. It has several ovals; Kaleen North oval, Kaleen Enclosed oval, Kaleen District Playing Fields and Kaleen South oval, which play host to a number of sports, including
soccer ,cricket , and rugby. Unusually for a suburb, there are two small shopping centres in Kaleen, both bordering the main street of Maribyrnong Avenue. There is also a larger shopping centre near Kaleen's border with Giralang on Georgina Crescent, which is surrounded on three sides by several religious structures, including a Greek Orthodox church, a Coptic Orthodox church, and anAnglican church, St. Simon's Kaleen. The suburb also has two government runprimary school s: Maribyrnong Primary School (located in Alberga Street, Kaleen) and Kaleen Primary School.Kaleen High School is located off Baldwin drive. The 2XX transmitting station is also located in Kaleen, near the Barton Highway. On the east side of the suburb is the Lyneham Ridge eucalypt plantation and a horse holding paddock.Kaleen, like most of
Canberra , is located on a network of well-maintainedbicycle paths. The main track in Kaleen passes under Ginninderra Drive, and runs through the middle of the suburb in a generally north-south direction, exiting the other side to the neighbouring suburb of Giralang.Geology
Silurian age Canberra Formation calcareousshale is found in the east of Kaleen.Ordovician age Pittman Formationgreywacke is in the west of the suburb.The Gungahlin Fault separates the two kinds of sediments, with the older greywacke being uplifted.Also to the east is the Winslade Fault roughly parallel and aligned north east.
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