__NOTOC__ Hugh is a locality in the

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, Australia, located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land from north to south – the Owen Springs, the Orange Creek and the Maryvale pastoral leases. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the river which flows through the locality and which was named as a creek by

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in 1860 after a Hugh Chambers. It fully surrounds the community of

Titjikala Titjikala (also known as Tapatjatjaka and formerly known as " Maryvale", after the cattle station at the community of the same name) is an Aboriginal community in the south of the Northern Territory of Australia. At the , Titjikala had a popul ...

. As of 2020, it has an area of . The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Hugh had 865 people living within its boundaries of which 687 (78.9%) identified as “

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.” Hugh is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.

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{{Localities and communities of the MacDonnell Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory MacDonnell Region