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Cook, Australian Capital Territory

Cook, Australian Capital Territory
FieldValue
nameCook
stateact
cityCanberra
alternative_location_mapAustralia ACT districted Canberra
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Canberra
coordinates
lgaBelconnen
postcode2614
est1968
area1.7
pop
stategovGinninderra
fedgovCanberra
near-nwWeetangera
near-nMacquarie
near-neAranda
near-eAranda
near-wCanberra Nature Park
near-swCanberra Nature Park
near-sCanberra Nature Park
near-seCanberra Nature Park

| near-nw = Weetangera | near-n = Macquarie | near-ne = Aranda | near-e = Aranda | near-w = Canberra Nature Park | near-sw = Canberra Nature Park | near-s = Canberra Nature Park | near-se = Canberra Nature Park

Cook (postcode: 2614) is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. At the , Cook had a population of 2,965 people.

The suburb of Cook is named after Captain James Cook and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia Sir Joseph Cook. The streets in Cook are named after notable women from Australian history.

Signs at the perimeter of the suburb's boundaries are a common target for graffiti artists, who alter one letter in the word "Cook" so that it reads "cock".

Suburb amenities

Former Cook Primary
  • Cook has a small shopping centre including the Cook Grocer independent supermarket, Little Oink coffee shop, To All My Friends bar, Jina's Hair Salon for men, Prestige Oysters fish monger and a public toilet.
  • Cook Community Hub, in place of the Cook Primary School which was a government run school for children in years K-6 until closed at the end of 2007 as part of a rationalisation of primary education across the ACT with most students moving to neighbouring schools in Aranda, Macquarie and Weetangera.
  • Cook Preschool
  • Cook school park

Governance

For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the House of Representatives, Cook is in the Division of Canberra.

For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly, Cook is in the Ginninderra electorate.

Geology

Main article: Geology of the Australian Capital Territory

Greywacke from the Ordovician Pittman Formation forms a band down the east of Cook. This has been uplifted on the east side of the Deakin Fault. The fault heads in the north north west direction in Cook. A porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white feldspar crystals is found in the north east corner of Cook. Mount Painter Volcanics dark grey to grey green crystal tuff is found in the centre and south and south west. Green grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics underlie the north west.

References

References

  1. {{Census 2021 AUS
  2. "Suburb Name search results". ACT Environment and Sustainable Development.
  3. (2021). "Too Many Cocks: On the (Im)possibility of Graffiti Re-writing Colonial Narratives". The Centre for Creative & Cultural Research, University of Canberra.
  4. (5 July 2012). "Electorates 2012 election". ACT Electoral Commission.
  5. Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.
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