Manuka, Canberra

Manuka (/ˈmɑːnəkə/ MAH-nə-kə) is an area in the Inner South district of Canberra, Australia covering parts of the suburbs of Griffith and Forrest. Manuka Shops, Manuka Oval, Manuka Swimming Pool, and Manuka Circle take their name from the park in the area.

The precinct is named after Manuka Circle, the street which forms the northern boundary of the precinct. Manuka Circle was on Walter Burley Griffin's original plan for Canberra and named after the New Zealand tea tree Leptospermum scoparium. The name Manuka is somewhat peculiar in that it is pronounced by local Canberrans differently from the tree from which it gets its name: /ˈmɑːnəkə/ (locally [ˈmɐːnəkə]) compared to /mɑːnuːkə/ ([mɐːˈnʉːkə]) for the tree.

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