Narrabundah
District:	South Canberra
Established:	1947
Postcode:	2604
Population:	5688 (2001 census)
Median property value:	$395,000 (2005)[1]
Canberra suburbs near Narrabundah Griffith Griffith Fyshwick Red Hill Narrabundah Symonston Red Hill Symonston

Narrabundah (postcode: 2604) is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Narrabundah is Ngunnawal for bird of prey. Streets in Narrabundah are named after indigenous names, explorers and pioneers. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (800x661, 58 KB) Summary Map of the suburb of Narrabundah in Canberra Created by en:User:Martyman in Illustrator, 31 October 2005 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are... South Canberra is a central district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. ... Postcodes are used by Australia Post to identify postal districts in Australia. ... This is a list of suburbs in the city of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ... Griffith (postcode: 2603) is an early inner-south suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ... Griffith (postcode: 2603) is an early inner-south suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ... Fyshwick locality map Fyshwick (postcode: 2609) is an industrial suburb of Canberra, located east of the South Canberra district. ... Categories: Suburbs of Canberra (incomplete) | Suburbs of Canberra ... Symonston (postcode: 2609) is a primarily industrial and agricultural suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ... Categories: Suburbs of Canberra (incomplete) | Suburbs of Canberra ... Symonston (postcode: 2609) is a primarily industrial and agricultural suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ... Postcodes are used by Australia Post to identify postal districts in Australia. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... Emblems: The floral emblem of the ACT is the Royal Bluebell and the faunal emblem is the Gang-gang cockatoo Motto: For the Queen, the Law and the People Slogan or Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Const. ...

During the 1870s, the bushranger Matthew Clarke is reputed to have had a campsite along the banks of what is now the Narrabundah wetlands, along the eastern edge of the suburb.

Narrabundah contains a primary school (Narrabundah Primary), a senior secondary college (Narrabundah College) and the now defunct St Benedict's institute of catholic remediation.

Geology

Rocks in Narrabundah are from the Silurian age. Mount Painter Volcanics dark grey to green grey dacitic tuff. This can be viewed in a park on Brockman St. Canberra Formation, calcareous shale is in the north of the Deakin Fault. Narrabundah Ashstone Member is found in east and southeast of the suburb. The Deakin Fault runs from Frome St, it is displaced from Anembo south to Goyder St. The South Fyshwick Fault runs east from the Narrabundah Primary School, separating ashstone in the south from the Canberrra Formation in the north. The Silurian is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Ordovician period, about 443. ... Welded tuff at Golden Gate in Yellowstone National Park Tuff (from the Italian tufo and pronounced tuf) is a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. ... Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ... Ashstone is a kind of volcanic rock formed from fine volcanic ash. ...

See also: Natural History of the Australian Capital Territory