Weetangera is a suburb in the Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 district of Belconnen

Belconnen

Belconnen is a district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, comprising 25 suburbs with 29,900 dwellings housing 82,247 people of the 311,518 people in the Australian Capital Territory ....

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It is next to the suburbs of Hawker, Page and Macquarie. The Canberra Nature Park

Canberra Nature Park

The Canberra Nature Park is actually 30 separate protected areas in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ranging from bushland hills to lowland native grassland...

 of The Pinnacle Nature Reserve borders it to the south across Springvale Drive. It has a primary school, Weetangera primary, and Weetangera neighbourhood oval.

It is named after the property purchased by Samuel Shumack

Samuel Shumack

Samuel Shumack was an early Canberra pioneer and Australian author.He was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland and moved to Australia with his family in 1856 where at the age of fifteen and with his father he took up a selection at Weetangera. He farmed his land until it was resumed by the...

 in 1861. It was also the name for the Weetangera parish

Weetangera Parish, Murray

Weetangera Parish, Murray County is a parish of Murray County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is now very small, after most of the land in the parish was transferred to the Australian Capital Territory in 1911, but it once included the south-west part of what is now...

, which included the land from Ginninderra Creek to the Molonglo River.

Weetangera is in the federal electorate of Fraser and the ACT

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

 electorate of Ginninderra

Ginninderra electorate

The Ginninderra electorate is one of the three electorates for the unicameral 17-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It has five seats, and is the smallest of the electorates in geographic area.-History:...

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Suburb amenities

Weetangera has a small shopping centre containing a bakery, beauty salon, jewellery shop and a publishing company.

Educational institutions

• Weetangera Primary School
• Weetangera Preschool

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