Throsby
- Local Government Area
- Unincorporated ACT
- Postcode
- 2914
- Population
- 2,405
- Area
- 1.48 km²
- Coordinates
- -35.1890, 149.1618
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Throsby
Throsby is a designated suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. The suburb is adjacent to the suburbs of Kenny and Harrison and is bounded by the Federal Highway to the east, the ACT/NSW border to the north, Horse Park Drive to the south and the Goorooyarroo nature reserve to the east. The suburb is named after the explorer Charles Throsby who was one of the first Europeans to open up the lands west of the Blue Mountains to grazing and agriculture.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Harrison 1 km
- ACT Remainder - Gungahlin 2 km
- Franklin (ACT) 2 km
- Gungahlin 2 km
- Forde 3 km
- Amaroo (ACT) 4 km