Acacia Hills is an outer rural locality of
Darwin. It is south of the
Darwin CBD in
Litchfield Municipality
The Litchfield Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of ...
. Named for the
acacia shrub that is endemic to the area,
the suburb is largely rural land, just north of Manton Dam and west of the
Adelaide River
The Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Course and features
The river rises in the Litchfield National Park and flows generally northwards to Clarence Strait, joined by eight tributaries including the west branc ...
.
Mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree '' Mangifera indica''. It originated from the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. ''M. indica'' has been cultivated in South and Southeast As ...
farming is an important local industry. Both the
Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; it has a distance of . Its northern and souther ...
and
Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor pass through the area.
The area is notable as the site of the 1999 Acacia Hills Shootout, where bushman
Rodney Ansell ambushed several policemen at a roadblock. Ansell killed one policeman but was eventually shot himself in the gun battle that followed.
Acacia Hills again made national news in 2021, when the Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority ordered a
Victorian
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19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literatur ...
company to remove 3000 tonnes of used tyres which were discovered to have been stored illegally on a local property
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#p#p
{{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns
Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory