Jacka, Australian Capital Territory
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| Jacka Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
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| Established: | 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2913 | ||||||||||||
| District: | Gungahlin | ||||||||||||
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Jacka is a designated suburb in Gungahlin, Canberra. The land designated for the suburb has not yet been released for development by the Australian Capital Territory’s Land and Development Agency (LDA).
According to the ACT’s Planning and Land Authority website, the suburb is named after Albert Jacka. "Arguably Australia's greatest front-line soldier. Jacka was awarded the first Victoria Cross of World War I, 19-20 May 1915 at "Courtney's Post" Gallipoli; the Military Cross at Poziers, 1916; and Bar at Bullecourt in April 1917. In postwar years he was a popular St Kilda Councillor and was elected as Mayor one year before his death in 1932. He was considered an extraordinary leader of the ordinary man." [1]
The suburb’s boundaries have been surveyed but not yet been established. The suburb was Gazetted in April 1991 and as yet has no residents.
The plan has green belts following creeks, and a couple of bushland parks included. The low point is 628 meters in the south where two creeks drain the suburb into Amaroo. The high point is 708 meters in the easternmost point. A height of 704 meters is achieved in the western end. Mostly the suburb covers a valley floor with a line of three hills in a north west line in the western side.
The rocks of the area are late middle Silurian period. They are called Canberra Formation and consist of slate, shale, and mudstone with a patch each of dacite, ashstone and tuff.
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