__NOTOC__ Burt Plain is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south): #The

Amburla Amburla Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Northern Territory, Australia. The property is situated approximately north of Hermannsburg and west of Alice Springs. Amburla occupies an area of . The most productiv ...

and Yambah pastoral leases #The Hamilton Downs and Bond Springs pastoral leases, and #part of the West MacDonnell National Park at its eastern end. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the natural feature of the same name which itself was named in 1871 after A.G. Burt, a member of the team building the Overland Telegraph Line. As of 2020, it has an area of . The

2016 Australian census The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an incre ...

which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Burt Plain had 250 people living within its boundaries of which 215 (85%) identified as “

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

.” Burt Plain is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the

MacDonnell Region The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018. Geography MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the so ...

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{{Localities and communities of the MacDonnell Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory MacDonnell Region