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Davenport 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 about south of the territory capital of
Darwin.
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The locality consists of the following land (from west to east):][
#The Singleton and Neutral Junction pastoral leases,
#The Kurundi and Murray Downs pastoral leases, and the Mungkarta Aboriginal Lands Trust,
#The Epenarra pastoral lease, the Warumungu and Anurrete Aboriginal Lands Trusts and the Elkedra pastoral lease.
The locality fully surrounds the communities of Ali Curung, Tara and Wutungurra.][ As of 2020, it has an area of .][
The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the mountain range which was named in 1860 by ]John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 18155 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers.
Stuart led the first successful expedition to tra ...
as the Davenport Range after Samuel Davenport
Sir Samuel Davenport (5 March 1818 – 3 September 1906) was one of the early settlers of Australia and became a landowner and parliamentarian in South Australia.
Davenport was fourth son of George Davenport, a wealthy English banker, an ...
, a South Australian politician.
Davenport includes the following places that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register
The Northern Territory Heritage Register is a heritage register, being a statutory list of places in the Northern Territory of Australia that are protected by the Northern Territory statute, the ''Heritage Act 2011''. The register is maintained b ...
– the Barrow Creek Hotel
Barrow may refer to:
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England
* Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area
** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
* Barrow, Cheshire
* Barrow, Gloucestershire
* Barro ...
, the Barrow Creek Telegraph Station
Barrow may refer to:
Places
England
* Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area
** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
* Barrow, Cheshire
* Barrow, Gloucestershire
* Barro ...
and the Neutral Junction Homestead (Old)
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The 2016 Australian census
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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Davenport had 178 people living within its boundaries of which 59.4% were male, 40.6% were female and 59.3% who 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 ...
.”
Davenport is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Barkly Region
The Barkly Region, formerly Barkly Shire, is a local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia, administered by the Barkly Regional Council. The region's main town is Tennant Creek. The region covers an area of and had a populati ...
.
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{{Localities and communities of the Barkly Region, state=collapsed
Populated places in the Northern Territory
Barkly Region