Oxley (postcode 2903) is the smallest
suburb in
Canberra. It is located in the district of
Tuggeranong
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 ...
. The suburb is named after the explorer
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828)
was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as Surveyor General of New South Wales and is perhaps best known for his two exp ...
(1783 to 1828), who explored parts of
New South Wales
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.
It was gazetted on 22 March 1982
and first settled in 1985. Streets are named after social reformers
and the suburb has an area of 1.08 km
2.
It is next to the suburbs of
Greenway,
Wanniassa and
Monash and is bounded by Drakeford Drive, Taverner Street and Erindale Drive.
Geology
Deakin Volcanics green grey, purple and cream
rhyolite occurs over most of the suburb and Deakin Volcanics green grey 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 rap ...
is found in the far south east corner. These rocks are from 414
mya in the
Silurian period.
[Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.]
Notes
References
Place names search, Geoscience Australia
Suburbs of Canberra
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