Tuggeranong Hill is located in

Tuggeranong, Canberra The District of Tuggeranong () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The district is subdivided into divisions (suburbs), sections and blocks and is the southernmost town cent ...

. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Mount Tuggeranong due to its prominence. Lanyon Valley is almost completely surrounded by hills and mountains and consequently

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

transmissions from Black Mountain are affected. To overcome this, there is a

broadcast translator A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...

on top of Tuggeranong Hill. There is a track to the repeater on top of Tuggeranong Hill for service vehicles that doubles as a fire trail. Tuggeranong Hill is part of 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 ...

. A walk to the top of Tuggeranong Hill provides views of the Lanyon Valley and of the rest of southern Canberra. Tuggeranong Hill stands 855 metres (2800 feet) above sea level.

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Parks in Canberra Mountains of the Australian Capital Territory {{canberra-geo-stub

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