Holtze is a locality of Darwin,

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. It is 22 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its

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is the Municipality of Litchfield. The locality is mostly a rural area, just north

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. It may have been named for

Maurice William Holtze Maurice William Holtze (8 July 1840 – 12 October 1923) born in Hanover, Germany, was a botanist who established Darwin's Botanical Gardens in Fannie Bay, Darwin in 1878. When he left to take charge of Adelaide's Botanic Garden in 1891, his so ...

(1840–1923), the botanist who established Darwin's Botanical Gardens, or his son Nicholas, who succeeded him as curator. In September 2010, the Northern Territory Government announced that new Darwin’s prison precinct,

Doug Owston Correctional Centre The Doug Owston Correctional Centre, is an Australian minimum to maximum security prison for males and females. The centre is located in Holtze, Northern Territory, Australia, south–east of Darwin and has a capacity of 800 prisoners, repla ...

, would be built in Holtze about four kilometres north of Howard Springs Road. In July 2012, a road in Holtze was registered and named after prison officer, Reginald Anthony Willard (1943–1997), who worked at the correctional centre. In 2011, the Northern Territory Government identified a greenfield site in Holtze near the intersection of Temple Terrace and the

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as the location for the

Palmerston Regional Hospital Palmerston Regional Hospital (PRH) is a public hospital in the outer suburbs of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is located in Holtze, just north of the satellite city of Palmerston. It opened in 2018 as a campus of Royal Darwin ...

. The hospital opened in 2018.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,810 people in Holtze. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 44.4% of the population.

References

{{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory

Population

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