McKellar () is a residential suburb in the

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district of

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, located within the

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. The suburb is named after Colin McKellar who was Minister for Repatriation from 1964 to 1970. The suburb name was gazetted on 15 January 1974. The streets of McKellar are named for

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with the main street of the suburb called Dumas Street. McKellar is bounded by Ginninderra Drive, William Webb Drive, Owen Dixon Drive, and Gundaroo Drive.

Suburb features

McKellar features the McKellar Oval in the centre of the suburb, known as William Palmer Park, and has panoramic prospect from

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to Black Mountain and

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. A small football stadium known as

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, and club are in the north east of the suburb. The McKellar shopping centre closed in 2012 and was later demolished, with only a single smaller commercial building remaining. McKellar Preschool closed in 2006, with the building later reopened as a privately run childcare centre.

Transport

McKellar is serviced by the

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bus network along Dumas Street and William Webb Drive. Route 43 travels along Dumas Street to

Interchange while route 24 travels along William Webb Drive to Belconnen Interchange.

Political representation

For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the

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, McKellar is in the

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. For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the

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, McKellar is in the

Ginninderra electorate The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five Electorates of the Australian Capital Territory, electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members. History It was created in 1995, wh ...

Geology

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of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white

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crystals is found in most of McKellar. This is intruded by a band of Glebe Farm

Adamellite Quartz monzonite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. It is typically a light colored phaneritic (coarse-grained) to porphyritic granitic rock. The plagioclase ...

through the south.Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.

References

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