Stirling is a suburb of Canberra,

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, Australia. It is located in the

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. The suburb is named after Sir James Stirling (1791–1865) who was the first Governor of Western Australia between 1829–1839 and established settlements at

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and

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in 1829. The suburb was gazetted in 1970. Its streets are named after Western Australian pioneers. Stirling contains the Weston Campus of the

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, which is located on Fremantle Drive.

Geology

Deakin Volcanics red-purple and green grey

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 r ...

with spherulitic texture cover most of Stirling except for Laidlaw Volcanics pale to dark grey

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on the southernmost quarter. Quaternary Alluvium covers the south west quarter.

References

Suburbs of Canberra {{canberra-geo-stub