8 De Gillern Place, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
It is a house set on a 418 m² land parcel.
The Jamison Centre, a major shopping mall, is about 0.4 km away and hosts a popular outdoor Rotary market on Sundays. A small shopping centre on Lachlan Street with a medical centre, chemist, coffee shop and a Vietnamese restaurant is also within a short walk.
Big Splash, one of Canberra’s few public swimming pools with an outdoor water slide, is roughly 0.3 km away, and the quirky ‘Big Powerful Owl’ sculpture is about 0.6 km from the house.
ACTION bus route 32 serves the suburb, linking Macquarie with Belconnen Town Centre and Civic, providing convenient access to the wider Canberra region.
Macquarie was gazetted on 22 June 1967 in honour of Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales. The suburb’s streets are named after his contemporaries.
The eastern part of Macquarie contains Ordovician greywacke from the Pittman Formation, uplifted along the Deakin Fault, which unusually heads northeast here. Green‑grey dacitic porphyry and rhyodacite underlie the centre and western parts of the suburb.
The National Health Co‑op, an Australian healthcare cooperative, is located about 0.5 km from the property, providing a range of health services to residents.
