Kaleen Walk Kaleen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By derf on 13-Jul-08. Waypoint GA1163

An easy walk through the Park

An easy strolle along the pathway . Lots of parking close by but if you ride its real easy.
This cache is in our home suburb and we walk this way on a regular basis.

However do you know that Kaleen was named from the Wiradhuri word for ‘WATER’, with a street theme of Australian rivers.

Not far away is the Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station (est. 1939) comprising 2 transmitting halls, several aerial arrays, a guardhouse, accommodation, messing facilities, a plant room, workshop and stores was an integral part of the district. Extensions, which had been added in the 50s and 60s, included a two-storey administration building, a regulating office and maintenance rooms.
A prominent station event in a non-military application was the broadcasting to many overseas countries of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

In  Feburary 1973 Belconnen’s first set of traffic lights was made operational at the intersection of Belconnen Way & Caswell Drive.

In terms of urban settlement Belconnen was forty years old in 2006. Development started at Aranda in 1966 and eventualy moved out, the most recent urban development being Dunlop and Bruce. Belconnen had been settled by Europeans farmers since the mid 1800s and some traces of agricultural activity remain. Before then it had been the home of the Ngunnawal people for some thousands of years.

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