Dundee Downs, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Dundee Downs
State:nt
Coordinates:-12.7624°N 130.5251°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:86
Established:29 October 1997
Established Footnotes:[2]
Postcode:0840[3]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:52
Dir1:SW
Location1:Darwin City
Lga:unincorporated area
Stategov:Daly[4]
Fedgov:Lingiari[5]
Maxtemp:31.9
Maxtemp Footnotes:[6]
Mintemp:23.3
Rainfall:1778.3
Near-N:Dundee Forest
Bynoe
Near-Ne:Bynoe
Near:Dundee Downs
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining localities[7] [8]

Dundee Downs is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south-west of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [3]

Dundee Downs consists of land located just south of the natural water body of Bynoe Harbour and largely north of the Fog Bay Road which passes through the locality near its southern boundary on its way from the Cox Peninsula Road in the east to Fog Bay in the west. Dundee Downs and the other two nearby localities prefixed with the name "Dundee" are named after the sub-divisions with these names. The name "Dundee" is believed to be derived from the 1998 film, Crocodile Dundee. The boundaries for Dundee Downs were gazetted on 29 October 1997 with the gazettal being revoked on 3 April 2007 with new boundaries being gazetted on 4 April 2007.[2] [7] [1]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Dundee Downs had 86 people living within its boundaries.

Dundee Downs is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.[5] [4] [8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Dundee Downs . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 5 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Palmer . M.J. . Place Names Act, NAMING OF PUBLIC PLACE . Northern Territory Government Gazette . Northern Territory Government . 5 May 2019 . 5 . 29 October 1997 . 24 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190224173531/http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/jspui/bitstream/10070/223975/1/EJ_NTGG_1997_G43.pdf . dead .
  3. Web site: Dundee Downs Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 5 May 2019.
  4. Web site: Division of Daly. Northern Territory Electoral Commission. 4 May 2019. 27 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091055/https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-daly. dead.
  5. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 5 May 2019.
  6. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics DUM IN MIRRIE AIRSTRIP (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 19 April 2019.
  7. Web site: Dundee Downs . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 5 May 2019.
  8. Web site: Localities within Un-Incorporated area (map). Northern Territory Government. 5 May 2019. 29 October 1997. the Un-Incorporated area described as either 'Dundee', 'West of Coomalie Shire and Litchfield Municipality' or 'Un-incorporated area - west of Litchfield and Palmerston Municipality' on the official website. 18 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190318101726/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/404784/Dundee_A3.pdf. dead.