13 Henry Street, Cook ACT 2614, Australia
The property sits on a 793 m² block of land. This provides ample space for outdoor activities and potential landscaping.
Cook has a small shopping centre that includes the Cook Grocer independent supermarket, Little Oink coffee shop, To All My Friends bar, Jina's Hair Salon for men, Prestige Oysters fish monger, and a public toilet. The suburb also offers the Cook Community Hub, Cook Preschool, and the Cook school park.
Within roughly 1 km you’ll find the Macquarie Island Magnetic Observatory (0.7 km), Pat Rubly Park (0.9 km), and Mount Painter (about 1 km). A short drive of around 1.3 km brings you to the Jamison Centre shopping mall, the Big Splash waterpark and the National Health Co‑op Macquarie branch.
The suburb sits on a mix of Ordovician Greywacke from the Pittman Formation along the eastern side, uplifted by the Deakin Fault. Additional geology includes a green‑grey dacitic porphyry in the north‑east corner, Mount Painter Volcanics crystal tuff in the centre and south‑west, and green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics to the north‑west.
For Australian federal elections, the property is in the Division of Canberra. In ACT Legislative Assembly elections it falls within the Ginninderra electorate.
At the 2021 census, Cook had a population of 2,965 residents. The suburb forms part of Canberra’s Belconnen district.
Cook is named after both Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Cook, the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. The streets are named after notable women from Australian history, and the suburb’s perimeter signs are often a target for graffiti alterations.
