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Amaroo is one of Canberra's newest and
northernmost suburbs. Part of the Gungahlin area,
development in Amaroo started gathering pace in the mid-1990's
after the suburb was gazetted in 1991. In contrast, construction in
Canberra's first suburb, Acton, began in 1913.
Planning for Amaroo's first school, Good
Shepherd, started in 1997 and in 2002 the first of the Catholic
school's students filed into class. In 2003, the public
Amaroo School took its first pre-school pupils. The
primary school, catering for pupils from kindergarten to year 5,
opened in 2004. This year it expanded to include years 6
to 8, and years 9 and 10 will be added in 2006 and 2007.
Amaroo is approximately 12km from the
Canberra GPO. Directly to the south are the shops and
community centres of Gungahlin Market Place.
The median price for houses is $420,000,
while the median price for a unit is $297,000.
In keeping with territory policy, the
titles of the suburb's streets follow a theme, and are
principally named after Australian lakes and rivers. Some
of the street names would be familiar to Canberrans fond of
holidaying around the South Coast area. Tuross Close is
named after the river in NSW rising on the eastern slopes of the
Kybeyan Range at Mt Kydra, flowing into Tuross Lake.
Shoalhaven Avenue takes its name from one
of the principal rivers in NSW, east of the Great Dividing range
near Nowra and Bomaderry. Even closer to home is the
inspiration for Naas Close, named after the ACT's Naas River, a
tributary of the Murrumbidgee.
Source: The Canberra Times - 22
March, 2005. |
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