5 Horsley Crescent, Melba ACT 2615, Australia
The house sits on a 714 m² block.
Melba is part of the Division of Fenner for Australian federal elections and falls within the Ginninderra electorate for ACT Legislative Assembly elections.
The Melba Tennis Club is located adjacent to the playing fields, George Simpson Park is about 1.2 km away, Mount Rogers hill lies roughly 1.4 km to the north, and beaches such as Yerra Beach (≈1.7 km) and Bargang Beach (≈2 km) are within easy reach.
The suburb contains green‑grey dacitic intrusive porphyry with large feldspar crystals, dacitic tuff from the Hawkins Volcanics, quartz andesite, and purple rhyodacite from the Deakin Volcanics, all intersected by the Deakin Fault.
Melba was named after Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), the first internationally recognised Australian opera soprano.
A National Health Co‑op branch in Evatt is about 1.7 km away, and the former weather station on Verbrugghen Street is roughly 0.5 km from the property.
