__NOTOC__ Coomalie Creek is a locality in the

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located about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of land bounded to the east by the

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and whose western boundary lies the immediate west of the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australia, 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; a distance of . Its northern and sou ...

which passes through the locality in a north–south alignment. This locality is named after Coomalie Creek, which flows through the locality, and whose name is considered to be corruption of the aboriginal name, Gumili. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 29 October 1997. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Coomalie Creek had 20 people living within its boundaries. Coomalie Creek is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and within the local government area of the

Coomalie Shire The Coomalie Community Government Council is a local government area in Australia's Northern Territory, situated south of Darwin and Palmerston. The council governs an area of . The shire had a population of 1,391 in June 2018. History Coomal ...

. During

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Coomalie Creek Airfield Coomalie Creek Airfield was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airfield built in 1942 in what is now the locality of Coomalie Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II. The airfield fell into disuse after the war ended. Since pu ...

was constructed by the

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in the locality, which was bombed by Japanese forces on several occasions. Although it is on private land, the airfield has been partially restored and along with an anti-aircraft defence battery nearby, are some of the most intact examples of wartime infrastructure in the Northern Territory. Both are

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{{Coomalie Shire Localities and Settlements Populated places in the Northern Territory