8 Darwin Avenue, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Australia
The property sits on a 6,736 m² lot. It offers a spacious garden area typical of the larger blocks found in central Yarralumla.
8 Darwin Avenue is in the suburb of Yarralumla, which lies about 3.5 km south‑west of Canberra’s city centre. The suburb borders Lake Burley Griffin to the north and is surrounded by tree‑lined streets named after Australian governors and botanists.
The Yarralumla local shopping centre on Bentham and Novar Streets provides a supermarket, chemist, restaurants and specialty shops. Parks such as Weston Park, Lennox Gardens and Yarralumla Bay are within a few minutes’ walk, offering playgrounds, swimming areas and barbecue spots.
The Embassy of Indonesia is essentially on the same block, with the Egyptian Embassy about 0.1 km away. Nearby are the High Commissions of Singapore, Malaysia and Pakistan (all within 0.2–0.3 km), as well as the embassies of Belgium, Mexico, Spain and the United States.
ACTION bus route 57 runs along Novar Street, Schlich Street and Hopetoun Circuit, connecting Yarralumla with Woden Interchange and City Interchange. The service provides a convenient link to Canberra’s central business district.
Weston Park, situated on a peninsula of Lake Burley Griffin, offers swimming areas, a miniature railway and picnic facilities. Yarralumla Bay and Lennox Gardens provide waterfront walking paths and a Japanese garden, while Stirling Park and the Yarralumla Neighbourhood Oval are also within easy reach.
Yarralumla was named after an 1828 property and means “echo mountain” in the local Aboriginal language. The suburb grew around historic sites such as the Government House (built 1891) and the former Yarralumla brickworks, which supplied bricks for many early Canberra buildings.
