49 Mackellar Crescent, Cook ACT 2614, Australia
The property occupies 1,291 m² of land. This provides ample space for the house and potential outdoor uses.
Cook has a small shopping centre that includes Cook Grocer, Little Oink coffee shop, To All My Friends bar, Jina's Hair Salon for men, Prestige Oysters fish monger and a public toilet. The area also features the Cook Community Hub and Cook Preschool.
Cook is named after two notable Australians: Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Cook, who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.
The suburb sits on Ordovician Greywacke from the Pittman Formation, a green‑grey dacitic porphyry in the north‑east, Mount Painter Volcanics tuff in the centre and south‑west, and Walker Volcanics rhyodacite underlying the north‑west.
For Australian federal elections, Cook is in the Division of Canberra. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it belongs to the Ginninderra electorate.
Pat Rubly Park is just 0.1 km away, providing a local green space. Mount Painter, a nearby mountain, is 0.7 km away, and Aranda Bushland is about 1.1 km distant for walking and nature enjoyment.
The perimeter signs of the suburb are a common target for graffiti artists who alter the word “Cook” to read “cock,” a local oddity that residents are aware of.
Jamison Centre, a larger shopping mall, is located approximately 1.4 km away in the neighbouring suburb of Macquarie.
