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Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory

Field	Value
type	suburb
name	Isaacs
state	act
city	Canberra
image	Isaacs shops.jpg
caption	Isaacs shopping centre
lga	Woden Valley
postcode	2607
est	1986
elevation	659
area	3.1
pop	2,379
pop_year
pop_footnotes
alternative_location_map	Australia ACT districted Canberra
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Canberra
coordinates
stategov	Murrumbidgee
fedgov	Bean
dist1	14
dir1	S
location1	Canberra CBD
dist2	16
dir2	W
location2	Queanbeyan
dist3	103
dir3	SW
location3	Goulburn
dist4	300
dir4	SW
location4	Sydney
near-nw	Phillip
near-n	O'Malley
near-w	Mawson
near-sw	Farrer

Isaacs ( ) is a suburb in the district of Woden in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

The suburb was gazetted as a Division Name on 12 May 1966 but residential housing was not built until the late 1980s. Isaacs is next to the suburbs of O'Malley, Mawson and Farrer. It is bounded by Yamba Drive and Ngunawal Drive. Located in the suburb is the Canberra Nature Park of Isaacs Ridge and the Long Gully pine plantation.

The suburb is named after Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), politician, Chief Justice and the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia (1931–1936).

Demographics

In the , the population of Isaacs was 2,379, including 40 (1.7%) Indigenous persons and 1,466 (61.6%) Australian-born persons.

Theme for streets

The suburb's theme is 'educationists': the streets are therefore named after people associated with Australian education. Some of the main streets in Isaacs, and their honorees, are:

Alexander Mackie Circuit: Alexander Mackie (1876–1955), academic who was first principal of the Sydney Teacher Training College and first Professor of Education at the University of Sydney (New South Wales)
Buntine Crescent: Walter Murray Buntine (1866–1953), teacher and campaigner for public education (Victoria)
Dorsch Street: Agnes Maria Johanna Dorsch (1871–1958), private teacher at Government House; teacher at Concordia College, 1923-43
Julia Flynn Avenue: Julia Teresa Flynn (1878–1947), secondary school teacher and school inspector (Victoria)
Maclagan Street: James B Maclagan (d. 1865), educationist who pioneered correspondence education (Western Australia)
Rowntree Crescent: Amy Rowntree, OBE (1885–1962), teacher, school inspector and historian (Tasmania)
Whitty Crescent: Ellen Whitty (Rev Mother Vincent) (1819–1892), social worker and missionary who established 26 Mercy schools and teacher training colleges (Queensland)
William Wilkins Crescent: William Wilkins (1827–1892), educational reformer and administrator, including Principal of Fort Street Model School (New South Wales)

Geology

Isaacs and environs, taken from Isaacs Ridge

Isaacs is built on Silurian age Deakin Volcanics. These are green-grey and purple coloured rhyodacite. The lower lying parts of the suburb are covered with Quaternary alluvium on top. Isaacs ridge has the same outcrops as the rest of the suburb.

References

{{Census 2021 AUS
"Suburb Name search results". ACT Environment and Sustainable Development.
Mackinnon, Alison. (1996). "Agnes Marie Johanna Dorsch (1871–1958)".
(1980). "Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs".

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