__NOTOC__ Koolpinyah 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 east of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of land bounded to the east by the

Adelaide River The Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. Course and features The river rises in the Litchfield National Park and flows generally northwards to Clarence Strait, joined by eight tributaries including the west branc ...

and in part to the north by the

Clarence Strait Clarence Strait, originally Duke of Clarence Strait,Statement of f ...

. This locality is named after

Koolpinyah Station Koolpinyah may refer to. * Electoral division of Koolpinyah, a former electorate in the Northern Territory of Australia * Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, a locality *Koolpinyah ephemerovirus, a species of virus – refer List of virus species * Koo ...

, a pastoral lease established on land now partly included in the locality in 1908 by Evan and Oscar Herbert, the sons of

Charles Edward Herbert Charles Edward Herbert (12 June 1860 – 21 January 1929) was an Australian politician and judge. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1900 to 1905, representing the electorate of Electoral district of Northern Territor ...

, a judge, a politician and a former Government Resident of the Northern Territory. The name is ultimately derived from "Gulpinyah", the aboriginal name for a waterhole located near the station’s homestead. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Koolpinyah had no people living within its boundaries. Koolpinyah is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Goyder and within the local government area of the

Litchfield Municipality The Litchfield Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia on the eastern and southeastern outskirts of the Darwin-Palmerston urban area. The municipality covers an area of , and was created by the Northern Terri ...

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