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The Belyuen Shire is a
local government area
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...
in the
Northern Territory of
Australia
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near
Wagait Beach on the
Cox Peninsula located across
Darwin Harbour from the city of
Darwin
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 i ...
. The administrative area is centred on the mostly
Indigenous community of Belyuen, known officially as Delissaville prior to 1975.
Delissaville and its airstrip were named for
Benjamin Cohen De Lissa
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thi ...
of Queensland, sugar grower and investor in
G. T. Bean's failed Port Darwin Sugar Company and the equally unsuccessful Delissa Pioneer Sugar Company.
Belyuen was established as a Community Government Council on 28 August 1992. On 1 July 2008, it became one of the eleven shires in the territory, changed by the
Northern Territory Government.
Suburbs
*
Belyuen
See also
*
Local government areas of the Northern Territory
References
External links
LGWORKS: Belyuen Community Government Council
Belyuen
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