Moulden, Northern Territory
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Moulden is an outer-city
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of Palmerston,
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. It is southeast of the Darwin CBD by road, about as the crow flies. Its
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is the
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. It is on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people. Moulden is bounded by Tilston Avenue in the north, Temple Terrace in the east, to the south is Chung Wah Terrace and Elrundie Avenue in the west. Moulden is named after Beaumont Arnold Moulden, who was a representative in the
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, who co-acquired land in the area in 1871.


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*https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#g *http://www.id.com.au/nt/commprofile/default.asp?id=251&gid=6050&pg=1 {{City of Palmerston suburbs Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory