Stirling
Stirling is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It is situated within the Weston Creek district. The suburb is named after Sir James Stirling, the first Governor of Western Australia from 1829 to 1839, who established settlements at Perth and Fremantle in 1829.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 2,120 residents
- Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
- Also known as: “Stirling, Australian Capital Territory” and “Stirling, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Stromlo High School and Oakey Hill.
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.
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.
Westfield Woden
Shopping center
Photo: Cfitzart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westfield Woden, formerly Woden Plaza, is a large shopping centre in the Woden Town Centre of Phillip of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The centre comprises four anchor tenants - David Jones, Big W, Coles and Woolworths - and more than 250 other retail, leisure, and dining outlets. Westfield Woden is situated 3½ km east of Stirling.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden and Canberra.
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.
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.
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.
Stirling
- Category: locality
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-35.34958° or 35° 20′ 59″ southLongitude
149.04936° or 149° 2′ 58″ eastPopulation
2,120Elevation
601 metres (1,972 feet)Open location code
4RPFM22X+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 26762294OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8349380Wikidata ID
Q7617547
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Satellite Map
Discover Stirling from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Stirling” goes by many names.
- French: “Stirling”
- Irish: “Stirling”
- Japanese: “スターリング”
- “Stirling”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hedley Beare Centre For Teaching & Learning and Stirling Ground One.
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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 “Stirling”. Photo: Kyle Taylor, CC BY 2.0.