Nicholls
Nicholls is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Gungahlin. It was named after Sir Douglas Nicholls who was born at Cummeragunja Aboriginal mission, New South Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 6,910 residents
- Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Also known as: “Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory” and “Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Dinosaur Museum and Cockington Green Gardens.
National Dinosaur Museum
Museum
Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
National Dinosaur Museum, located in Gold Creek Village, Nicholls, Canberra, is Australia's largest permanent display of prehistoric specimens. Established in 1993, the museum has grown into one of Canberra's premier tourist attractions.
Cockington Green Gardens
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cockington Green Gardens is a park of miniatures, situated in Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory. Doug and Brenda Sarah had the idea to create a miniature village in 1972, and Cockington Green was opened on 3 November 1979.
John Paul College, Canberra
School
St John Paul II College is a systemic Roman Catholic co-educational high school located in the Canberra suburb of Nicholls in the Australian Capital Territory of Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hall and Gungahlin.
Hall
Photo: Sheba Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Have you ever wondered whether there were any settlements in the Australian Capital Territory before it was established? Hall is one of the last few remnants of what was New South Wales bushland before the capital was established.
Gungahlin
Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gungahlin is Canberra's northernmost district. Many travellers visit the district for the Gold Creek Village, a family-friendly "village", holding nearly all of Gungahlin's important tourist attractions.
Taylor
Suburb
Photo: Chrisfromcanberra, Public domain.
Taylor is a suburb in Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia. Development of the suburb began in 2017. It is named after magazine publisher Florence Mary Taylor, who was editor of and writer for several Australian building industry journals including the influential Building magazine. Taylor is situated 4½ km north of Nicholls.
Nicholls
- Category: locality
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.18716° or 35° 11′ 14″ southLongitude
149.09648° or 149° 5′ 47″ eastPopulation
6,910Elevation
626 metres (2,054 feet)Open location code
4RPFR37W+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 251874440OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8349185Wikidata ID
Q7026520
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Nicholls” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “尼科尔斯 (澳大利亚首都特区)”
- Chinese: “尼科尔斯”
- French: “Nicholls”
- Irish: “Nicholls”
- Japanese: “ニコルズ(Nicholls)”
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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 “Nicholls”. Photo: Kyle Taylor, CC BY 2.0.