__NOTOC__ Cox Peninsula is a locality in the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

located on the

Cox Peninsula __NOTOC__ The Wagait Shire is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The council was established as the Cox Peninsula Community Government Council on 28 April 1995 and renamed with effect from 1 July 2008. The shire is l ...

and adjoining land about south-west of the territorial capital of Darwin. Cox Peninsula consists of land both on the Cox Peninsula and its immediate south and which is located within the cadastral units of the hundreds of Bray and

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, but does not included land within the two local government areas established on the peninsula, the

Belyuen Shire __NOTOC__ The Belyuen Shire is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia near Wagait Beach on the Cox Peninsula located across Darwin Harbour from the city of Darwin. The administrative area is centred on the mostly Indigen ...

and Wagait Shire. The locality is named after the Cox Peninsula which itself is named after Matthew Dillon Cox, a pastoralist who applied in 1869 for a lease over the entire peninsula. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Cox Peninsula had 15 people living within its boundaries. Cox Peninsula is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.

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