Hume is a suburb of Canberra in the
District of Jerrabomberra
The Jerrabomberra District is a district of Canberra. It is situated to the southeast of South Canberra, south of the Molonglo River, east of Woden Valley and north east of Tuggeranong and west of the New South Wales border. It includes the subur ...
. The suburb is named after the explorer
Hamilton Hume
Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. In 1824, along with William Hovell, Hume participated in an expedition that first took an overland route ...
and streets are named after Australian industrialists and businessmen.
Hume is a light-industrial suburb and there is no significant housing development. At the , Hume had a population of 395,
[ up from six in 2006,]Alexander Maconochie Centre
The Alexander Maconochie Centre is an Australian prison, prison in the Australian Capital Territory, which detains maximum security, minimum security and Remand (detention), remand prisoner, inmates, both male and female. It is located in Hume, ...
. The location of the prison has also given Hume a highly unusual gender ratio with 92.7% of the permanent population being male.[
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Geology
Deakin Volcanics from the 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 ...
period underlie Hume. Cream and purple rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of those plutonic rocks that are intermediate in composition between monzogranite and granodiorite. Rhyodacites form from rapid ...
are found in the south and including Tralee, New South Wales
Tralee is a planned suburb of Queanbeyan, New South Wales. It lies south of Jerrabomberra and the site once planned for the future city of Environa. It was named after Tralee in Ireland.
The residential site, which falls under the flight path of ...
. A mixture of purple and green tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...
, ashstone
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock con ...
, shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...
, and coarse 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) ...
is in the north east. Coarse dark purple rhyodacite is in the north end near Queanbeyan turn off.[Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.]
See also
* Mugga Lane Solar Park
Mugga Lane Solar Park is a photovoltaic solar power station at Hume in the Australian Capital Territory.
Construction of the Mugga Lane Solar Park at Mugga Lane was completed in March 2017. It is owned by the Maoneng Group, which has been contra ...
Footnotes
References
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Suburbs of Canberra
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