Isaacs is a suburb in the district of Woden in Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The postcode is 2607.

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

O'Malley, Australian Capital Territory

O'Malley is a suburb in the Canberra district of Woden Valley. On Census night 2006, O'Malley had a population of 684 people. There are numerous embassies in O'Malley....

, Mawson

Mawson, Australian Capital Territory

Mawson is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden Valley.The suburb was gazetted in 1966 and named after the Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. The theme for street names is Antarctic exploration....

 and Farrer

Farrer, Australian Capital Territory

Farrer is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden. The postcode is 2607.-Name origin:Named for William James Farrer , a wheat-breeding pioneer, many of whose experiments were conducted at Lambrigg near Tharwa.-Location:...

. It is bounded by Yamba Drive and Ngunawal Drive. Located in the suburb is the Canberra Nature Park

Canberra Nature Park

The Canberra Nature Park is actually 30 separate protected areas in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ranging from bushland hills to lowland native grassland...

 of Isaacs Ridge and the Long Gully pine plantation.

It is named after Isaac Isaacs

Isaac Isaacs

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC was an Australian judge and politician, was the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post. He is the only person ever to have held both positions of Chief Justice of Australia and...

 (1855–1948), politician, Chief Justice and the first Australian born Governor-General (from 1931–36).

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
  University of Sydney
  The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
  
   (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
  Concordia College, Adelaide
  Concordia College is an independent, co-educational, Lutheran, secondary, day school, located in Highgate, an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia....
  
  , 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
  Fort Street High School
  Fort Street High School is a co-educational, academically selective, public high school currently located at Petersham, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
  
   (New South Wales)

Geology

Isaacs is built on Silurian

Silurian

The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443.7 ± 1.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya . As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the...

 age Deakin Volcanics. These are green-grey and purple coloured rhyodacite

Rhyodacite

Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of granodiorite. Phenocrysts of sodium rich plagioclase, sanidine, quartz, and biotite or hornblende are typically set in an aphanitic to glassy light to intermediate...

. The lower lying parts of the suburb are covered with Quaternary

Quaternary

The Quaternary Period is the most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the ICS. It follows the Neogene Period, spanning 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present...

 alluvium

Alluvium

Alluvium is loose, unconsolidated soil or sediments, eroded, deposited, and reshaped by water in some form in a non-marine setting. Alluvium is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel...

on top. Isaacs ridge has the same outcrops as the rest of the suburb.