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Alawa, Northern Territory
Alawa is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is bounded by Trower and Dripstone Roads, Lakeside Drive and the Rapid Creek. It is in the local government area of City of Darwin The City of Darwin is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. It includes the central business district of the capital, Darwin City, and represents two-thirds of its metropolitan population. The City covers an area of a .... History The suburb of Alawa was constructed in the late 1960s. Alawa is named after the Alawa Aboriginal tribe who inhabited an area on the southern tributaries.The Origin of Suburbs, Localities, Towns and Hundreds in the Greater Darwin area . Retrieved 2007-12-16 The street na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes the city's location a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs begin at Lee Point in the north and stretch to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, experiences a tropical climate with a wet a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Darwin
The City of Darwin is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. It includes the central business district of the capital, Darwin City, and represents two-thirds of its metropolitan population. The City covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 84,613 people. History The first Town and District Council was formed in 1874. The Darwin Town Council was created in 1915. From 1921 the five member Council had been elected on a ratepayer's franchise. In 1930 the Mayor and Councillors resigned in protest against the re-introduction of adult suffrage. A caretaker Council was appointed until 1937, when it was abolished at the council's own request. In 1955 a statement added to the Local Government Ordinance provided for the Constitution of the Municipality of Darwin. In 1957 the council was increased to twelve members and a Mayor. An annual election providing for the Mayor and half of the Council members to be retired at each election, was also intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Casuarina
Casuarina is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974 and was named after the adjacent suburb of Casuarina. Casuarina is an entirely urban electorate, covering only 12 km2 and taking in the suburbs of Brinkin, Nakara, Tiwi and part of Alawa, as well as the Charles Darwin University. There were 5,647 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020. For the first three decades of its existence, Casuarina, like most seats in the Darwin area, was a stronghold for the Country Liberal Party. Clare Martin did nearly manage to take the seat for the Labor Party upon the retirement of long-serving CLP member Nick Dondas in 1994, but lost out to the CLP's Peter Adamson, who held the seat for the next seven years. It was still widely presumed to be a safe Liberal seat in 2001, when it unexpectedly fell to Labor challenger Kon Vatskalis as part of Labor's sweep of the northern suburbs that year en route t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Solomon
The Division of Solomon is an Australian Electoral Division in the Northern Territory. It is largely coextensive with the Darwin/Palmerston metropolitan area. The only other division in the territory, the Division of Lingiari, covers the remainder of the territory. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state or territory, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state or territory's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state or territory are malapportioned. History The division was one of the two established when the former Division of Northern Territory was redistributed on 21 December 2000. It is named for Hon Vaiben Louis Solomon, a Premier of South Australia, a delegate to the second Constitutional convention and member of the first Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinkin, Northern Territory
Brinkin is a northern suburb of Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is located north of Darwin's central business district, and is home to the Casuarina campus of Charles Darwin University (formerly Northern Territory University's campus). History Brinkin is named after an Aboriginal tribe who inhabited an area to the south of the Daly River mouth. The streets in Brinkin are named after boats which serviced the coast of northern Australia. The suburb was constructed in 1984, and the university followed several years later. Geography Brinkin is located on Darwin Harbour coastline at the southern end of Casuarina Beach, and is bounded by Trower Road to the north, Ellengowen Drive to the east and part of Rapid Creek and a stormwater drain to the south. The suburb consists of a few residential blocks to the north of the university, the university itself, a coastal reserve and part of the Rapid Creek Wetlands. Ellengowan Drive in Brinkin was named a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casuarina, Northern Territory
Casuarina is one of the northern suburbs of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is home to the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory, called Casuarina Square. Casuarina is a small suburb taking in the large shopping and business area and the adjoining emergency service facilities/ buildings. History Casuarina derives its suburban name from the casuarina trees that grow along the nearby Casuarina Beach. Casuarina was the name used in the early 1960s for the proposed main business area in the northern suburbs. Transport Casuarina is a base for one of three interchanges for the Darwin bus service which is located at Casuarina Square, just below Woolworths. From here, travellers can ride buses directly to the Darwin or Palmerston interchanges, or on circuits which service the surrounding suburbs before returning to the Casuarina interchange. 250px, Casuarina Interchange In late 2010, Vice President of The Northern Territory Transport Autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanguri, Northern Territory
Wanguri is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. History Wanguri was one of Darwin's northern suburbs built before Cyclone Tracy in 1974. It derives its name from the Aboriginal Tribe. The streets in Wanguri are mostly named after early Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... residents of Darwin. Present day Major features of Wanguri include the Wanguri Primary School and Wanguri Park. Wanguri experienced a decrease in population between 1996 and 2001. Wanguri is part of the Wanguri electoral division which also includes Leanyer, Muirhead and parts of Lyons. References External links NT Government placenamesCity of Darwin Community Profiles {{City of Darwin suburbs Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapid Creek, Northern Territory
Rapid Creek is both a creek in the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia and the name of a suburb north of the city, situated where the creek empties into Darwin Harbour. History Although the precise circumstances of the naming of Rapid Creek remain obscure, the name must have been applied by Surveyor-General George W. Goyder's surveyors not long after the arrival of the 1869 Northern Territory Survey Expedition. The outline of the creek, running from Marrara swamp to the sea between Casuarina Beach and Nightcliff, is present on Goyder's map, though no name appears on it. Goyder personally visited the locality on Saturday, 3 April 1869 and described the creek, without naming it, as ''"a strong shallow stream near Night Cliff''". Sometime between then and 13 September, the name came into existence. There is an entry in Goyder's diary for the latter date which records that surveyor George MacLachlan was sent out to Rapid Creek to check on the availability of fresh wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagaman, Northern Territory
Wagaman is a suburb of the Australian city of Darwin, Northern Territory. It lies in the band of locations known as the northern suburbs. An established residential area, Wagaman is bounded by Vanderlin Drive in the north, Lee Point Road in the east, Parer Drive in the south and Trower Road in the west; these confines correspond to the neighbouring suburbs of Alawa, Moil, Anula, Wanguri and Casuarina. History Development of the area was primarily during the 1970s, with much of the area built before Cyclone Tracy struck in 1974 and caused severe damage. Major features of the area include Wagaman Primary School, Wagaman Park and a small shopping centre. Wagaman has experienced a decrease in population between 1996 and 2001, the result of stability in the number of dwellings and a decline in the average number of persons living in each dwelling. Wagaman is named after the Wagiman Aboriginal tribe from present-day Pine Creek, in the Katherine Katherine, also spelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millner, Northern Territory
Millner is a northern suburb in the city of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. History Millner was named after Dr James S. Millner, the medical officer in George W. Goyder's 1869 expedition to found the first colony at Port Darwin. He went on to serve as Protector of Aborigines until his death in 1875. Millner and his family perished on the ill-fated ''SS Gothenburg'', which was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on 24 February 1875, with the loss of 102 lives. The National Archives of Australia (Darwin) is located in Kelsey Crescent. The Darwin office was under construction when Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin in Christmas 1974. Construction continued, after the clean-up of the town, and the building opened in 1976. Being a purpose built repository with the added protection offered by strict Cyclone Coding it was one of the safest buildings in the whole of the Territory. With the event of self-government for the Northern Territory in 1978, a Custody and Ownersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingili, Northern Territory
Jingili is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. History Jingili was constructed in the early 1970s. Jingili is named after the Jingili people, an Australian Aborigines, Aboriginal tribe who inhabited the area around Elliott, Northern Territory, Elliott in the middle of the Territory. The streets within Jingili are named after Flying Officers killed in the Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin area during World War II and local people killed in action in France or Belgium during World War I. Present day Jingili is two kilometres from Casuarina Square. Jingili has a Primary School, a Pre-school and a Day-Care centre. The smaller shopping centre is well equipped for day-to-day shopping. One of Darwin's oldest cemeteries is located in this suburb not far from the Rapid Creek, Northern Territory, Rapid Creek. References External links * *http://www.placenames.nt.gov.au/origins/greater-darwin {{coord, 12, 23, 12, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moil, Northern Territory
Moil is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people. History Moil was built before Cyclone Tracy in 1974. While on Larrakia land, it derives its name from the Aboriginal people on the Moyle River The Moyle River is a river in the Northern Territory, Australia. Course The river rises on a plateau area near the Wingate Mountains and flows in a north westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country through a narrow valley then across ... who inhabit an area on the lower reaches of the Daly River and around Port Keats. References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#m {{City of Darwin suburbs Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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