Gigerline Parish was a former

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, a cadastral unit for use on

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. It was formed in the nineteenth century and existed until 1 January 1911, when the

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came into force, after the land was transferred to the Commonwealth government in 1909 to be used to form the

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. It included what are now the southernmost Canberra suburbs of

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, Conder, and

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, with the northern boundary near

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. It was bounded by the

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in the west and Guises Creek in the south and south-east. It is one of the four former parishes of Murray County which became part of the ACT, along with Canberra, Narrabundah, and Yarrolumla. While other parishes lost land to the ACT, these were the only ones to lose all of the land within the parish. The Gigerline Nature Reserve is located in a similar region.

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Map showing proposed Federal Capital Territory and tenures of land within same, Charles Robt. Scrivener, 22 May 1909NSW Dept. of Lands Parish map preservation project
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