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Darwin River, Northern Territory
Darwin River is an outer suburban area in Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the Darwin River which flows through the locality. References External links {{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory ...[...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] |
Litchfield Municipality
The Litchfield Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia on the eastern and southeastern outskirts of the Darwin-Palmerston urban area. The municipality covers an area of , and was created by the Northern Territory government on 6 September 1985. Geography The Litchfield Municipality is bounded by the Adelaide River to the east, Van Diemen Gulf and the Coomalie Shire in the south and the City of Darwin and City of Palmerston to the northwest. The Stuart and Arnhem Highways run through the Litchfield Municipality. Most of the Municipality is rural or rural-residential in character. Current day service provision Despite the first elected body's original ethos of the 3Rs in the early 1980s, Litchfield Council went on, and continues, to provide numerous services beyond Roads, Rubbish and Recreation, including but not limited to; * Animal Management * Abandoned Vehicles * Planning and Development * Thorak Regional Cemetery (from 1 July 2008) * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Charlotte is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territorial capital of Darwin. It consists of land within the boundaries of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Hughes in the north and those parts of the hundreds of Finniss and Hart bounded by the Finniss River in the south. It is named after the Charlotte River which was mapped along with the Annie River in 1869 by a survey team from the South Australian government expedition led by George Goyder. The official source suggests that the two rivers were named after family members of persons within the survey team. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The Cox Peninsula Road passes throughout the top of the locality with the following roads branching off to the west and the south respectively – the Fog Bay Road and the Litchfield Park Road. The Kangaroo Flats Training Area, an Australian Defence Force facility, is located within the lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmore, Northern Territory
Blackmore is an outer rural locality in Darwin. It is adjacent to the Blackmore River. References External links {{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbling Waters, Northern Territory
Tumbling Waters is an outer rural location in Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the town which was named after the rapids "Tumbling Waters" where R C Burton discovered gold in 1869. References External links {{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berry Springs, Northern Territory
Berry Springs is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. The locality is a mostly rural area situated on the Cox Peninsula Road and is sparsely populated. A few businesses and a school are located in the locality. In the , the population of Berry Springs was 818. It is located by road from the Darwin Central Business District and lies within the Litchfield Municipality local government area. History The location is known as Laniyuk by the indigenous Kungarakany people. The name Berry Springs derives from Berry Creek, named by the Surveyor General of South Australia, George Goyder, in 1870, after his chief draftsman, Edwin Berry. Most early development of the area was concentrated around the thriving town of Southport at the confluence of the Blackmore and Darwin Rivers. In 1889, a station named Southport opened on the North Australia Railway, on the road between that town and Berry Springs. The location soon declined in importance however. During World War II, ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livingstone, Northern Territory
Livingstone is an outer rural locality near Darwin. The name "Livingstone" derived from the war-time airstrip which was named after John D Livingstone, Jnr.Livingstone On 4 April 1942, Livingstone was wounded during action over Darwin, but flew to the newly completed 34 mile airstrip where he crash landed, but died in the resultant inferno. He was buried at "The Gardens Cemetery". The 34 Mile strip was named Livingstone in his honour. Livingstone has a rural recreation reserve managed by a community management committee and provides a Friday night 34 mile bar and bistro frequented by locals and visitors. References External links {{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin River Dam, Northern Territory
Darwin may refer to: Common meanings * Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection * Darwin, Northern Territory, a territorial capital city in Australia Arts and entertainment * ''Darwin'' (1920 film), a German silent film * ''Darwin'' (2011 film), a documentary * ''Darwin'' (2015 film), a science fiction film by Alain Desrochers * Darwin (''seaQuest DSV''), a dolphin in the TV series ''seaQuest DSV'' * ''Darwin!'', a 1972 album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso * '' Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist'', a 1991 biography of Charles Darwin * Darwin (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe associated with the X-Men * Darwin Watterson, a character from the 2011 TV series ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' Astronomy * 1991 Darwin, a main-belt asteroid * Darwin (lunar crater) * Darwin (Martian crater) * Darwin (spacecraft), a European Space Agency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collett Creek, Northern Territory , a holding device in machining
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