Holtze is a locality in Darwin,

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. It is 22 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its

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is the

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. The locality is mostly a rural area, just north of Palmerston. It was named for Maurice William Holtze (1840–1923), the botanist who established Darwin's Botanical Gardens, and his son Nicholas, who succeeded him as curator. In September 2010, the Northern Territory Government announced that new a Darwin’s prison precinct,

Doug Owston Correctional Centre The Doug Owston Correctional Centre, is an Australian minimum to maximum security prison for males and females. The centre is located in Holtze, Northern Territory, Australia, south–east of Darwin and has a capacity of 800 prisoners, repla ...

, would be built in Holtze, about four kilometres north of Howard Springs Road. In July 2012, a road in Holtze was registered and named after prison officer Reginald Anthony Willard (1943–1997), who worked at the correctional centre. In 2011, the Northern Territory Government identified a greenfield site in Holtze near the intersection of Temple Terrace and the

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as the location for the Palmerston Regional Hospital. The hospital opened in 2018.

Population

In the 2016 census, there were 1,810 people in Holtze. Aboriginal and

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people made up 44.4% of the population.

References

{{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory

Population

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