Roseberry County is one of the five counties in the

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which are part of the

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. The County of Rosebery was gazetted on 15 July 1885 and covered the area north of Pine Creek. The county was not subdivided into hundreds. The County of Rosebery fell into disuse on 7 January 1977.

County Name

Like the other Counties of the Northern Territory, Roseberry is named for a

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. In this case Roseberry County is named after the Fifth Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, who was visiting the colony of

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at the time of the creation of the county and who a decade later he became the

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