The Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate has released a video celebrating the Australian musicians honoured in place names throughout Canberra.
Unveiling the collection, the Directorate said the ACT’’s suburb, street and place names were a tribute to Australia’s remarkable people, their geography, heritage and history.
“Some of the people commemorated were well known, while others were quiet achievers,” the Directorate said.
“The streets of both Melba and Moncrieff are named after Australian musicians and the field of music, covering everything from First Nations culture to our world-renowned musical exports,” it said.
The Directorate encouraged people to learn more about how the Territory’s suburbs, streets and places were named.
It said that in 1927 a committee was set up to name the streets and suburbs of Australia’s new capital city.
“The National Memorials Committee proposed that street names in Canberra’s suburbs follow a theme,” the Directorate said.
“That policy (one of the oldest in the ACT) is still in place.”
It said nearly every suburb in the ACT had a theme by which its streets were named with those including people, places, flora, fauna or things relevant and important to the history of Australia.
The Directorate said people curious to learn more about place names could use its search tool on ACTmapi to gather information about the origin and significance of commemorated place names.
The Directorate’s place name video can be accessed on its Facebook page at this PS News link and its ACTmapi search tool can be accessed at this link.
