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Gordon, Canberra — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Gordon is a suburb of Tuggeranong in Canberra, Australia, named after the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon and laid out with streets that honour sportspeople.
About Gordon
Where to stay in Gordon
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Woodfull Loop names the pattern. Gordon's streets carry the names of sportspeople, and the loop named for the captain of the Australia national cricket team in the Bodyline test series is the example the record singles out. Beds are another matter.
Nothing in the record marks the suburb as a visitor's base, so a room here means a residential address in Tuggeranong with the rest of Canberra reached by road rather than on foot.
About Gordon
What are the main landmarks in Gordon?
The street signs are the sights. Gordon records no landmark of its own, and what a visitor finds instead is a suburb-wide act of commemoration: the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon in the suburb's own name, and sportspeople on almost every road inside it. Woodfull Loop is the clearest case.
It takes the name of the captain of the Australia national cricket team through the Bodyline test series, which puts a piece of cricket history on a residential street in Tuggeranong.
What is the history of Gordon?
Gazettal came on 12 March 1987, which fixed Gordon as a suburb of the Tuggeranong district. The name reaches much further back. Adam Lindsay Gordon, the poet who lived from 1833 to 1870, had been dead well over a century by the time a Canberra suburb was given his name, and the street plan then extended the commemorative habit to sportspeople.
Woodfull Loop came out of that habit.
Where is Gordon?
Tuggeranong holds it. Gordon sits inside that Canberra district, a suburb of housing whose street names run through the roll of Australian sportspeople.
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Updated September 2026