| Phillip Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
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| Population: | 1910 (2006 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1966 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2606 | ||||||||||||
| District: | Woden Valley | ||||||||||||
| Assembly Electorate: | Molonglo | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Canberra | ||||||||||||
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Phillip (postcode: 2606) is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Woden Valley. It is located in the centre of the district and contains the district's main commercial centre, Woden Town Centre. The suburb is named after Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales. The suburb name was gazetted on 12 May 1966. Streets in Phillip use names associated with the First, Second and Third Fleets; streets in the Swinger Hill were named after architects.[2]
As the commercial and geographical centre of Woden, Phillip contains many of the district's key facilities. As well as the Woden Town Centre, which includes the Westfield Woden shopping centre, a bus interchange and the Lovett Tower (the tallest commercial office building in Canberra), it has its own commercial area located along Botany, Townshend and Parramatta Streets. The Southside campus of the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) is located in the suburb, as is Eddison Park and the Woden Cemetery. Phillip also contains a number of sporting facilities, including the Phillip Enclosed Oval, several playing fields and the Phillip Swimming & Ice Skating Centre, home to the Canberra Knights of the Australian Ice Hockey League.
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The Swinger Hill housing estate is located in Phillip. It is often seen as a separate suburb or as part of nearby Mawson, because it is located away from the rest of Phillip on the other side of Hindmarsh and Athllon Drive. The Swinger Hill development was built in the 1970s, some years after Phillip itself, as an estate of mixed townhouses. Some of the houses in Barnett Close in Swinger Hill are listed by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects as significant twentieth century architecture.
The rocks underneath Phillip are from the Silurian period and are from 417 to 414 million years old.
Deakin Volcanics green-grey and purple coloured rhyodacite is found in the west half and south east corner of Phillip and under the cemetery area, and Deakin Volcanics purple and green tuff is found around Hindmarsh Drive on the east side of Phillip. The volcano that produced these rocks may have been in Lyons. A small strip of shale from the older and lower Yarralumla Formation is just to the west of Easty Street.
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