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Pamayu, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Pamayu is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin City, Northern Territory, Darwin. The locality’s name which is pronounced as "Bama-yu" is derived from the local Jingili people, Djingli aboriginal people’s name for the site where the Powell Creek Telegraph Station was located. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007 and fully surrounds the localities of Elliott, Northern Territory, Elliott and Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory, Newcastle Waters. Its boundary with the locality of Elliott was amended on 20 January 2016. The Stuart Highway and the Adelaide-Darwin Railway both pass from south to north on the western side of the locality. Pamayu includes the following places that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register – the Powell Creek Telegraph Station and the Ucharonidge Station No. 1 Bore & Windmill. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin City, Northern Territory
Darwin City (referred to as ''Darwin city centre'' or ''The CBD'' (Central Business District) is a suburb in metropolitan Darwin which comprises the original settlement, the central business district, parkland and other built-up areas. It is the oldest part of Darwin and includes many of the city's important institutions and landmarks, such as Parliament, Government House, the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Bicentennial Park and the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens. The city centre is located in the local government areas of the City of Darwin and the Darwin Waterfront Precinct. Although the city centre is one of the most developed areas of Darwin, demographically it is one of the less densely populated, due to its core being commercial. History The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS ''Beagle'' on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Lingiari
The Division of Lingiari is an Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory that covers the entirety of the territory outside of the Division of Solomon, which covers Darwin and surrounding areas. The division also includes the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Lingiari includes all of the Northern Territory's remote Indigenous communities, most of whom vote when visited by mobile polling teams during the election campaign. The current MP is Marion Scrymgour, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Scrymgour herself is Indigenous and inherited Tiwi identity from her mother. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state or territory, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state or territory's representation entitlement changes or when divisions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who spent Census night, 9 August 2016, in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powell Creek Telegraph Station
Powell Creek Telegraph Station was a repeater station for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line and it sat between the Tennant Creek Telegraph Station and the Daly Waters Telegraph Station. It was one of the more important telegraph stations along the line as inland weather conditions were so favourable that not all stations where required to support the line. The telegraph station takes it name from the nearby Powell Creek which was named by John McDouall Stuart on 19 June 1861 after JW Powell. It is located 60 km south of Elliott and 200 km from Tennant Creek. It listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register and was previously listed on the Register of National Estate. The area where it is located is now known as Pamayu (pronounced "Bama-yu") which is the Djingili name for this place. History The Powell Creek Telegraph Station was originally a temporary timber office and quarters that were constructed in 1872 and it was not officially opened until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory Heritage Register
The Northern Territory Heritage Register is a heritage register, being a statutory list of places in the Northern Territory of Australia that are protected by the Northern Territory statute, the ''Heritage Act 2011''. The register is maintained by the Northern Territory Heritage Council. Other registers Sites within the Northern Territory are listed on national and international heritage registers such as the following, are not duplicated in the Northern Territory Heritage Register: * UNESCO World Heritage list * Australian National Heritage list * Commonwealth Heritage list The Commonwealth Heritage List is a heritage register established in 2003, which lists places under the control of the Australian government, on land or in waters directly owned by the Crown (in Australia, the Crown in right of the Commonwealth ... * Australian National Shipwreck database References External links * (, last amended 1 May 2016.) * – Searchable database. {{Heritage registers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; a distance of . Its northern and southern extremities are segments of Australia's Highway 1. The principal north–south route through the central interior of mainland Australia, the highway is often referred to simply as "The Track". The highway is named after Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart, who was the first European to cross Australia from south to north. The highway approximates the route Stuart took. Route description Overview Stuart Highway runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, in the north, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta, South Australia, in the south – a distance of . The Royal Flying Doctor Service uses the highway as an emergency landing strip and sections of the highway are signed to that effect. These sections of highway have been specially selected and prepared for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingili People
The Jingili or Jingulu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Jingulu language, Jingulu is classified as belonging to the Mirndi languages, Mirndi family of Pama-Nyungan languages, non Pama-Nyungan languages. An early word-list was compiled by Francis James Gillen, F. A. Gillen. Following in the wake of pioneering work by Neil Chadwick in the 1970s, Robert Pensalfini wrote out a grammar of Jingulu on the basis of fieldwork with its last known fluent speakers. Country Norman Tindale estimated the range of Jingili lands at approximately . The southern frontier was around Renner Springs, the Renner Springs area about Mount Grayling, extending northwards to Newcastle Waters and also took in the area of thAshburton Range To the east they encompasseCattle Creeksouth of Wave Hill Station, Wave Hill and Ucharonidge Station, Ucharonidge. Their western extension ran as far as the 25 miles from Lake Woods. Social organization Robert Hamilton Mathews, R. H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory
Newcastle Waters is a town and locality off the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. The nearest petrol station and accommodation is found south at Elliott. The Newcastle Waters School draws most of its few students from the Marlinja homeland community which lies on the northern boundary of the town. The town of Newcastle Waters is a ghost town that contains a number of preserved historic buildings, including Jones's Store and the Junction Hotel. It is located inside Newcastle Waters Station, a large cattle station with over 40,000 head of cattle. In 1926, Newcastle Waters was required by the ''North Australia Act 1926'' to be the permanent site of the seat of government for the now-defunct Territory of North Australia. The provisional seat of government for the territory was Darwin, and nothing was done to establish the new capital before the act was repealed by the ''Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1931''. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 population of almost 7,400 as at June 2018. History In October 2006 the Northern Territory Government announced the reform of local government areas. The intention of the reform was to improve and expand the delivery of services to towns and communities across the Northern Territory by establishing eleven new shires. The Barkly Shire was created on 1 July 2008, as were the remaining ten shires. On 1 January 2014, it was renamed Barkly Region. The Barkly Region is administered by the Barkly Regional Council. The most recent elections of Councillors were held on 26 August 2017. The current President (Mayor) of the Region is Steve Edgington. In 2019, a proposal was made to build a solar farm in the region, which would become the world’s large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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