Gunn is an inner-city

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, Australia. It is 23 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its

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is the

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. It is located on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people. Gunn is bounded to the north by the Temple Tce and Roystonea Ave, to the west is Chung Wah Terrace, and to the south is Lambrick Ave and East is Roystonea Ave . The suburb is mostly composed of developments from the 2000s to 2010s after

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struck Darwin in 1974. The suburb of Gunn is named after Mrs Jeannie Gunn, born in Carlton,

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as Jeannie Taylor in June 1870. Miss Jeannie Taylor met Aeneas Gunn. The Gunns came to

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on the Aeneas Gunn had previously been to the Northern Territory in 1890.

Transport

Gunn's "main street" is Lakeview Boulevard, running from Roystonea Avenue to Chung Wah Terrace. It is entirely a two-lane road, with one

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. Roystonea Avenue forms the southern boundary of Gunn, with three roundabouts in Gunn. It runs from Highway 1 to Temple Terrace in Gray.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#g {{City of Palmerston suburbs Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory