Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory
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| Nicholls Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
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| Population: | 5,857 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2913 | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $489,000 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| District: | Gungahlin | ||||||||||||
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Nicholls is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Gungahlin. The postcode is 2913. The suburb is named after Sir Douglas Nicholls (1906-1988), a former Governor of South Australia. It was gazetted on October 18, 1991. Streets are named after sportsmen and sportswomen.
It adjoins the suburbs of Kinlyside, Casey, Ngunnawal, Crace and Palmerston. The Gungahlin Pond is located in the east of the suburb, near the southern end of the Gungahlin Lakes Golf Club. A Canberra Nature Park called Percival Hill is located further south.
Some of the largest houses in Nicholls are built against Harcourt Hill in the west. Also in Nicholls is the Senior Site portion of Gold Creek School, Perce Douglas Memorial playing fields, Nicholls Neighbourhood oval, Holy Spirit Primary School and Gold Creek Primary School.
[edit] Gold Creek
Although the suburb of Nicholls is fairly new, the area around the Gold Creek Village dates from much earlier. This has the Gold Creek country club golf course, as well as Cockington Green, a collection of miniature models and gardens that was opened on 3 November 1979. There is also the National Dinosaur Museum and the George Harcourt Inn. Federation Square has a number of smaller shops.
Ginninderra Village is also at Gold Creek, which is one of the earliest settlements in Canberra, having being built in 1883, with Canberra's first school.
[edit] Geology
Harcourt Hill is made up from Hawkins Volcanics mostly cream rhyolite. But in the south and west there are two patches of green-grey dacite and quartz andesite. A fault forms the south east boundary of the Hawkins Volcanics. A porphyry outdrops through most of the center of Nicholls, this is green grey dacitic intrusive, with white feldspar phenocrysts. Over to the east side of the suburb there is Canberra Formation slatey shale and mudstone, then State Circle Shale, then micaceous Black Mountain Sandstone making up Percival Hill. An anticline forms the ridge of Percival Hill, with an overturned syncline on the western slopes. In the north east side of Nicholls the corner Vee shaped outcrop of tuff comes in from Ngunnawal, and also the base of the crook shaped ashstone outcrop.
