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The District of Gungahlin is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The district is subdivided into divisions (suburbs), sections and blocks. ''Gungahlin'' is an Aboriginal word meaning "little rocky hill". Gungahlin comprised eleven suburbs, including three currently under construction and a further seven suburbs planned. The town of Gungahlin was part of the original 1957 plan for future development in the ACT and in 1991 was officially launched as Canberra’s fourth ‘town’ by the ACT Chief Minister. At the time, the population of Gungahlin was just 389 residents. At the 2011 census, the population of the district was ;〔〔 and this figure is expected to rise to by the year 2016;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Live In Gungahlin - Your one stop shop for information about living and working in Gungahlin in the Australian Capital Territory )〕 and to grow to 72,900 by 2021.〔ACT Suburbs and Districts Population Projections: 2009 to 2021, ACT Chief Minister’s Department, Canberra〕 Within the district is Canberra's northernmost town centre that is situated north of Canberra city centre. The town centre is one of five satellites of Canberra, seated in Woden, Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and Belconnen. ==Establishment and governance== The traditional custodians of the district are the indigenous people of the Ngunawal tribe. Following the transfer of land from the Government of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1911, the district was established in 1966 by the Commonwealth via the gazettal of the ''Districts Ordinance 1966 No. 5'' (Cth) which, after the enactment of the , became the . This Act was subsequently repealed by the ACT Government and the district is now administered subject to the . During colonial times and up until the late 1960s, present-day Gungahlin was part of the former farmlands of Ginninderra. Ginninderra Village and later still the village of serviced the needs of the local farming community. Free settlers included farming families such as the Rolfe, Shumack, Gillespie and Gribble families. These settlers established wheat and sheep properties such as 'Weetangara', 'Gold Creek', 'The Valley', 'Horse Park' and 'Tea Gardens'. Much of the local produce supplied the large workforce at goldfields located at Braidwood and Major's Creek in New South Wales. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gungahlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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