Latham, Australian Capital Territory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Latham Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
|||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||
| Population: | 3,645 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1971 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2615 | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $296,000 (2005)[1] | ||||||||||||
| District: | Belconnen | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Latham is a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. The postcode is 2615. The suburb is named for John Latham, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1935 to 1952.
It is next to the suburbs of Charnwood, Flynn, Florey, Higgins, Holt and Macgregor. It is surrounded by Ginninderra Drive on the north, Florey Drive on the west, Southern Cross Drive on the south, and Kingsford Smith Drive on the east.
Latham has a primary school and neighbourhood oval. It also has an ACTEW substation. Ginninderra creek runs through Latham, and there are open areas of grassland nearby, such as the Umbagong district park.
[edit] Geology
Most of Latham is covered by the upper Silurian Deakin Volcanics. From the north east of Latham to the South west you can pass up through the stratigraphic layers of volcanics.
- green grey and purple rhyodacite.
- grey rhyodacitic tuff
- purple rhyodacite
- purple and green tuff
- pink rhyolite
- purple-pink rhyolite
Upper Silurian Laidlaw Volcanics grey tuff form a wedge over the top of the Deakin Volcanics.
This article on the geography of the Australian Capital Territory and Canberra is a stub. You can help Wikipedia's Canberra WikiProject by expanding it.
