The Hundred of Goyder is a
hundred in the
Northern Territory of Australia which was part of the now-lapsed cadastral unit of the
County of Palmerston
Palmerston County is one of the five counties in the Northern Territory of Australia which are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. It contains the city of Darwin. It was proclaimed on 14 September 1871 and divided into hun ...
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Goyder lies south of
Darwin in the
Batchelor area and is named after
George Woodroffe Goyder, who was responsible for the major survey of the Town of Palmerston (Darwin). The Hundred of Goyder was one of the first 13 Hundreds gazetted in 1871.
NT Place Names Register
One of the main industries in the Hundred is Uranium mining
Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50 thousand tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were the top three uranium producers, respectively, and together account f ...
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