Anula is a Northern suburb of
Darwin, Northern Territory, in the
Northern Territory
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of
Australia. The suburb lies to the east of Lee Point Road and to the north of
McMillans Road and covers an area of .
The suburb lies to the north of
Darwin International Airport
Darwin International Airport is the busiest airport serving the Northern Territory and the tenth busiest airport in Australia. It is the only airport serving Darwin.
The airport is located in Darwin's northern suburbs, from Darwin cit ...
which is also known as
RAAF Base Darwin.
The streets in Anula are named after early NT Mines and mineral fields. Names such as Spring Hill Street, Caledonian Street, Wolfram Court and Zapopan Court being but a few examples.
History
During
World War II
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, in 1945, the No.1 Canadian Special Wireless Group was located in the present day suburb.
The suburb is named after the
Anula group of the Yanyuwa nation who live around the
Borroloola –
McArthur River
The McArthur River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria at Port McArthur, opposite the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands. The river was named by Ludwig Leichhardt while he explored the are ...
– Seven Emus area on the coastline of the
Gulf of Carpentaria.
When the area was designed in 1966, the linguists' spelling was that listed, but variant uses of the name were Yanyula and Janjula. Yanyula Drive perpetuates one variant name for the tribe group, but the whole suburb enshrines Anula as the adopted name in the 1960s, gazetted finally as a suburb in 1984.
The suburb of Anula was under construction when
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 24 to 26 December 1974. The small, developing easterly storm had been observed passing clear of the city i ...
devastated Darwin in late 1974, with a few house constructions started and a handful completed. As part of the reconstruction the blocks, with remains of construction were cleared, the power infrastructure was placed underground and construction started again. Prior to the cyclone most houses were to be of the elevated type, however post cyclone most houses were concrete single level.
References
External links
City of Darwin- Community Profile – Anula
Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory
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