__NOTOC__ Ranken 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 in the territory's east adjoining the border with the state of

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about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south): #The West Ranken pastoral lease #The East Ranken and Soudan pastoral leases #The Adder,

Avon Downs Avon may refer to: *River Avon (disambiguation), several rivers Organisations *Avon Buses, a bus operating company in Wirral, England * Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922, following ...

and Burramurra pastoral leases. and #The Rocklands and Austral Downs pastoral leases. As of 2020, it has an area of . The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the Ranken River which was named in the 1860s after John LC Ranken, the pastoralist who first established Lorne Creek, which is now known as the Avon Downs Station. Ranken includes the following places listed on the

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– Avon Downs Pastoral Station, the Eldo Rocket Shelter Austral Downs and the

Eldo Rocket Shelters Argadargada Eldo is a given name is a variation of Eldho and may refer to the following people People * Eldo Abraham, Indian politician *Eldo T. Ridgway (1880–1955), American physician and politician Fictional characters *''Eldo Davip'',a fictional soldi ...

. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Ranken had a population of 44 people. Ranken is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the

Barkly Region The Barkly Region, formerly Barkly Shire, is a local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia, administered by the Barkly Regional Council. The region's main town is Tennant Creek. The region covers an area of and had a populati ...

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