Belyuen, formerly known as Delissaville, is a community in the

Northern Territory of Australia 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 Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

located on the

Cox Peninsula __NOTOC__ The Wagait Shire is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Au ...

about south-west of the territorial capital of Darwin. Belyuen consists of land under the control of the Belyuen Aboriginal community council. It is named after the Aboriginal community which was established with the name Delissaville and which was changed in 1975 to Belyuen which is the name of a “nearby waterhole.” Belyuen is classified as a community rather than as a locality because this is the standard Northern Territory Government description given to administrative areas that were established around the existing Aboriginal communities in 2007. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Belyuen had 164 people living within its boundaries. Belyuen is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and the local government area of the

Belyuen Shire __NOTOC__ The Belyuen Shire is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia near Wagait Beach, Northern Territory, Wagait Beach on the Cox Peninsula located across Darwin Harbour from the city of ...

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{{reflist Populated places in the Northern Territory