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Fisher

Fisher is a suburb of , , located in the district of Weston Creek. Fisher was named after Andrew Fisher, coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908 and 1915.
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  • Type: Suburb with 2,870 residents
  • Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
  • Also known as: “Fisher, Australian Capital Territory” and “Fisher, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Stromlo High School and Mount Taylor.

School
Photo: Junky James, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a co-educational secondary school in the suburb of , , Australia. It is administered by the ACT Education Directorate, with an enrolment of 835 students and a teaching staff of 66 as of 2024.

Peak
Photo: Matilda, Public domain.
is a prominent hill with an elevation of 856 metres AHD that is located between the , and , in , within the , .

Shopping center
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, formerly Woden Plaza, is a large shopping centre in the Woden Town Centre of of , . The centre comprises four anchor tenants - David Jones, Big W, Coles and Woolworths - and more than 250 other retail, leisure, and dining outlets. is situated 3 km northeast of Fisher.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden and Tuggeranong and Country ACT.

Photo: Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
are three districts of just west and southwest of and . 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.

Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Country ACT is a large rural area surrounding the urban areas of in all directions by the north, where the kookaburra's head hits the New South Wales border.

Photo: Kyle Taylor, CC BY 2.0.
was built to be the capital city of , taking up all of Australian Capital Territory surrounded by the southeast of . A planned city with national monuments, museums, and galleries all built around large man-made lakes.

Fisher

Latitude
-35.36126° or 35° 21′ 41″ south
Longitude
149.05688° or 149° 3′ 25″ east
Population
2,870
Elevation
628 metres (2,060 feet)
Open location code
4RPFJ3Q4+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26763851
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8349304
Wiki­data ID
Q1001743
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In Other Languages

From French to Persian—“Fisher” goes by many names.
  • French: “Fisher”
  • Hungarian: “Fisher (Ausztráliai fővárosi terület)”
  • Hungarian: “Fisher”
  • Irish: “Fisher”
  • Persian: “فیشر، 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 “Fisher”. Photo: Tdmalone, CC BY-SA 2.5.