Chapman
Chapman is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, where many diplomats and some of the wealthier citizens of Canberra chose to take their residency.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tdmalone, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Suburb with 2,570 residents
- Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Also known as: “Chapman, Australian Capital Territory” and “Chapman, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Stromlo High School and Mount Taylor.
Mount Stromlo High School
School
Photo: Junky James, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Stromlo High School is a public co-educational secondary school in the Canberra suburb of Waramanga, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It is administered by the ACT Education Directorate, with an enrolment of 835 students and a teaching staff of 66 as of 2024.
Mount Taylor
Peak
Photo: Matilda, Public domain.
Mount Taylor is a prominent hill with an elevation of 856 metres AHD that is located between the Woden Valley, Weston Creek district and Tuggeranong Valley, in Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Mount Taylor is situated 4 km southeast of Chapman.
Oakey Hill
Peak
Oakey Hill is a hill near Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. It rises 80 metres above the adjacent south Canberra suburbs of Lyons, Curtin and Weston, and its 66 hectares is one of 33 areas which form Canberra Nature Reserve. Oakey Hill is situated 3½ km northeast of Chapman.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden and Tuggeranong and Country ACT.
Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden
Photo: Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden are three districts of Canberra just west and southwest of Acton and South Canberra. They are just on the edge of Country ACT home to the National Arboretum, some of the most impressive greenery one could find in Canberra.
Tuggeranong and Country ACT
Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Country ACT is a large rural area surrounding the urban areas of Canberra in all directions by the north, where the kookaburra's head hits the New South Wales border.
Canberra
Photo: Kyle Taylor, CC BY 2.0.
Canberra was built to be the capital city of Australia, taking up all of Australian Capital Territory surrounded by the southeast of New South Wales. A planned city with national monuments, museums, and galleries all built around large man-made lakes.
Chapman
- Category: locality
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.35621° or 35° 21′ 22″ southLongitude
149.03745° or 149° 2′ 15″ eastPopulation
2,570Elevation
645 metres (2,116 feet)Open location code
4RPFJ2VP+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 26763860OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8349166Wikidata ID
Q860086
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Chapman” goes by many names.
- French: “Chapman”
- Hungarian: “Chapman”
- Irish: “Chapman”
- Italian: “Chapman”
- Japanese: “チャップマン”
- Persian: “چپمن، قلمرو پایتختی استرالیا”
- Russian: “Чапмен”
- Russian: “Чэпмэн”
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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 “Chapman”. Photo: Tdmalone, CC BY-SA 2.5.