10 Biraban Place, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
The house sits on a parcel of land measuring 884 square metres. This provides ample space for outdoor activities or potential landscaping.
10 Biraban Place is a detached house. It is the predominant form of housing in the Macquarie suburb.
The major Jamison Centre is about 1 km away, offering a variety of shops and a Sunday outdoor Rotary market. Big Splash waterpark, featuring a public pool and an outdoor water slide, is roughly 0.9 km away, and a small shopping strip on Lachlan Street provides a medical centre, chemist, coffee shop and a Vietnamese restaurant.
ACTION bus route 32 serves Macquarie, linking the suburb directly with Belconnen Town Centre and Civic. The service runs regularly throughout the day.
Macquarie sits on a band of Ordovician greywacke from the Pittman Formation and is intersected by the Deakin Fault, which unusually heads northeast here. Beneath the Jamison Centre lies a green‑grey dacitic porphyry with large feldspar crystals, and the western part of the suburb is underlain by green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics.
The ACT Herpetological Association is about 1 km away, while the National Health Co‑op Macquarie is within 0.7 km. The Macquarie Island Magnetic Observatory sits roughly 0.5 km from the house, and the quirky roadside attraction ‘The Big Powerful Owl’ is also nearby.
Macquarie was gazetted in 1967 to honour Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales. Many streets in the area are also named after his contemporaries.
