Hume
Hume is a suburb of Canberra, Australia and is adjacent to the District of Jerrabomberra in New South Wales.The suburb is named after the explorer Hamilton Hume and streets are named after Australian industrialists and businessmen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 425 residents
- Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Also known as: “Hume, Australian Capital Territory” and “Hume, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mugga Lane Solar Park.
Mugga Lane Solar Park
Power station
Photo: Grahamec, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mugga Lane Solar Park is a photovoltaic solar power station at Hume in the Australian Capital Territory. Construction of the Mugga Lane Solar Park at Mugga Lane was completed in March 2017.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Queanbeyan and Manuka.
Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan is a city of 36,000 people in New South Wales that could almost be considered a suburb of Canberra. It is a 15-minute drive from Canberra.
Manuka
Neighborhood
Manuka is an area in the Inner South district of Canberra, Australia covering parts of the suburbs of Griffith and Forrest. Manuka Shops, Manuka Oval, Manuka Swimming Pool, and Manuka Circle take their name from the park in the area. Manuka is situated 8 km north of Hume.
South Canberra
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
If it's your first time in Canberra and you're time limited to only exploring one part of Canberra, it has to be South Canberra. Sometimes referred to as the inner south, South Canberra houses some of Canberra's most important landmarks: Parliament House, and…
Hume
- Category: locality
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.38538° or 35° 23′ 7″ southLongitude
149.16585° or 149° 9′ 57″ eastPopulation
425Elevation
592 metres (1,942 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU HUMOpen location code
4RPFJ578+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2364201905OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Persian—“Hume” goes by many names.
- French: “Hume”
- Hungarian: “Hume”
- Irish: “Hume”
- Japanese: “ヒューム (オーストラリア首都地域)”
- Persian: “هوم، قلمرو پایتختی استرالیا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hume”. Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.