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Crace () is a suburb of
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,
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in the district of
Gungahlin The District of Gungahlin () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The Gungahlin Region is one of fastest growing regions within Australia. The district is subdivided into di ...
. It was named after
Edward Kendall Crace Edward Kendall Crace (1844–1892) was an Australian pastoralist who owned extensive land holdings around Canberra. Crace was the son of the English interior designer John Gregory Crace (1809-1889) and his wife, Sarah Jane Hine Langley. Crace ...
an original settler in the Gungahlin area. Streets in Crace are named after parishes and land divisions from colonial times. It is bounded by the
Barton Highway Barton Highway is a highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It connects Canberra to Hume Highway at Yass, and it is part of the route from Melbourne to Canberra. It is named in honour of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Pri ...
, Gundaroo Drive, Nudurr Drive and Gungahlin Drive. Located in the suburb is the
Canberra Nature Park The Canberra Nature Park is a series of thirty three separate protected areas in and around Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ranging from bushland hills to lowland native grassland. Many of the areas have previously been cleared for gra ...
of Gungaderra Grasslands nature reserve. At the , it had a population of 4,459.


History


Development

The suburb has finished development and construction. * Road construction commenced in July 2008. * The construction of 21 display homes was completed in May 2009. * By July 2012 more than half of the houses were complete. * The majority of homes were complete by 2015. The ACT government selected developers for the area as
Defence Housing Australia Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is an Australian government business enterprise established by the ''Defence Housing Australia Act 1987''. DHA supplies housing and related services to Australian Defence Force members and their families in lin ...
and Canberra Investment Corporation. The developers were expected to make $60,000,000 but had to share half with the government. Some very small blocks were released for low cost housing with 85% released for high cost housing.Crace development a step closer
16 November 2007
1,500 houses were planned for the 140 hectares, however more than 1,600 dwellings were built.


Streets

As part of the recent development, a new series of streets have been created following a Burley-Griffin grid pattern. Phase 1 Streets: * Abena Avenue (main street of Crace) * Arcadia Street * Baratta Street * Benalla Street * Carrawa Street * Chance Street * Cocoparra Crescent * Digby Circuit * Dobikin Street * Durong Street * Errol Street * Fairfield Street * Galore Street * Harrow Street * Hillcrest Street * Junee Street * Keewong Crescent * Langtree Crescent * Medhurst Crescent * Narden Street * Narden Street * Parilia Street * Quain Street * Rylstone Crescent * Stowport Avenue (incorporates an urban linear park) * Taplow Street * Ultimo Street * Vandyke Street * Wadeye Street * Yinnar Street * Zanci Street * Fingal Street


Existing facilities

The suburb also encompasses Gungahlin Hill, which hosts the transmission facilities for the following radio stations: * ABC Radio National * 666 ABC Canberra * 1RPH *
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* 1053
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* 1206 2CC * Hit 104.7 Crace has a local shopping complex which includes Supabarn, The District (restaurant/pub), Chicken Gourmet, Capital Chemist, Blue Poppy Hair, Club Lime, Sibu Beauty, Coffee Guru, Verve Chiropractic, Crace Medical Centre, and B Best Thai Massage. Like the majority of new Canberra suburbs, Crace is a cat containment area: all cats have to be kept inside the cat owner's property and within an enclosure if outside.


Geography

Crace Grasslands Nature Reserve and Crace Hill are not completely located in Crace despite the name; their southern parts are located in the adjacent suburb of Lyneham. It also has a CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems area.


Geology

On the North west side of Crace the rock is middle
Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozo ...
age Canberra Formation slaty shale and mudstone. In the mid west is siltstone. Towards Gungahlin Hill there is some
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
at the base of the siltstone deposit, then over an
unconformity An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous. In general, the older layer was exposed to erosion for an interval ...
to lower
Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozo ...
age State Circle Shale, and then mudstone. On Gungahlin Hill the rocks are from the
Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start ...
age Pittman Formation with
greywacke Greywacke or graywacke (German ''grauwacke'', signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lit ...
and bands of the Acton Shale Member. The east side of Crace also has Silurian Canberra Formation with the top of Crace Hill having vesicular
Dacite Dacite () is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides. It has a fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic texture and is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite. ...
overlying mudstone. Crace Hill has been designated as a geological monument. The
Gungahlin The District of Gungahlin () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The Gungahlin Region is one of fastest growing regions within Australia. The district is subdivided into di ...
Fault curves around the south east side of Gungahlin Hill, and heads north north east out of Crace. The Winslade Fault comes into the south of Crace over the top of Gungahlin Hill and curves north into Palmerston.


References


External links


Crace Community Association website
{{Gungahlin Suburbs Suburbs of Canberra