__NOTOC__ Robin Falls is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located on the Cox Peninsula and adjoining land about south of the territory capital of

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. The locality was named after Robin Falls, a waterfall located within its boundaries and which is reported as being named by

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, a North Territory medical practitioner and pilot, after Robin Cook, the “daughter of Dr M Cook, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Protector of Aboriginals from 1927 to 1939”. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Robin Falls includes the site of a former World War II era chemical warfare facility which was listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 2 March 2011 under the name of the WWII 88 Mile Burrell Creek Chemical Warfare Depot and Camp. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Robin Falls had 13 people living within its boundaries. Robin Falls is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.

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{{reflist Populated places in the Northern Territory Places in the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory