I went to Australia Post to see what they said about the postcode 2600
and they list 13 suburbs like Deakin West, Barton, Duntroon and
Canberra as being all part of 2600.
So I wanted to see how they decide upon postal locations to go with
their postcodes and the info page on this said that it is up to the
states and territories to decide how they decide and define
boundaries...
http://www.suburbs.canberra.net.au/html/fsregion.htm
This the ACT Planning and Land Authority's definition and mapping of
Canberra suburbs - this site divides the ACT down into divisions like
Majura, Belconnen and Canberra Central and then these are fuerther
divided down into suburbs (Campbell, City, Kingston) but interestingly
there is no "Sotuh Canberra" or "North Canberra" in these
divisions....
On 5/12/07, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
Paul T and Paul J have certainly clarified what point you might mean if you
are going 'to' or standing 'on' Canberra but such a point has no spatial
content and in a physical sense does not exist. 'Canberra' means different
things in different contexts, as in "I expect Canberra to do well against
the Rabbitohs".
I think someone has pointed out that as Canberra has no specified limits it
refers, in ordinary speech, to the northern part of the ACT that happens to
be built on from time to time. On the other hand 'Canberra' as the
designation of a postal zone (2600) takes in the 'suburbs' of Capital Hill,
Parkes, Russell, Barton, Yarralumla and Deakin, but, curiously, not Forrest,
which is on State Circle.
As to 'COG', well does 'Canberra' refer to the 'ornithologists' or the
'group'? As the area of interest – and the residences of quite a few of the
ornithologists – extends over Queanbeyan and quite a bit of adjoining NSW I
have long thought that we need a new geographical expression that will take
in not only Turner and Kambah but Burra, Wamboin and the inner approach to
Canberra Airport including Jerrabomberra Estate No3. (I am struck by the
coincidence that the skies above Tralee are not only thick with aircraft but
quite often with migrating YF Honeyeaters.) As scientists are so important
to the Group and so many of them live in the area concerned, my choice for
that area would be 'Csirostan'. This has a nice ring to it and would enable
'COG' to be retained, unlike something like 'Shinybumia', however accurate.
From: Mark Clayton
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 8:54 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] a totally stupid question - delete now if not
interested
Hi all,
This is something that has been sending my brain, or what's left of it, into
cloud cuckoo land (that's probably the closest this will come to anything
birdy!!). Can anyone tell me EXACTLY where "Canberra" is? The postcode 2600
is in Parkes from what I can gather (this is where I gather the "GPO" is
found in the old West Block buildings or whatever they may now be called),
as is "old" parliament house. "Canberra" was around before the "new"
parliament house which also has the 2600 postcode. Or is it just a name for
a locality like Belconnen, Woden, Gungahlin etc, and if so just what does it
encompass? Think about it!! Please put this old brain out of its misery.
Should we really be the "National Capital Ornithologists Group, although
NCOG just doesn't have the same ring as COG??
Thanks,
Mark
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Daniel Rayner
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Australian National University
Canberra 0200 ACT
Australia
mobile +61(0)411041951
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Daniel Rayner
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Australian National University
Canberra 0200 ACT
Australia
mobile +61(0)411041951
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