Type: | suburb |
Hart | |
State: | nt |
Coordinates: | -23.0351°N 135.108°W |
Coord Ref: | [1] |
Pop: | 169 |
Established: | 4 April 2007 |
Postcode: | 0872[2] |
Elevation: | 661 |
Elevation Footnotes: | (weather station) |
Area: | 18161 |
Area Footnotes: | [3] |
Timezone: | ACST |
Utc: | +9:30 |
Dist1: | 1259 |
Dir1: | S |
Location1: | Darwin |
Lga: | Central Desert Region |
Stategov: | Namatjira[4] |
Fedgov: | Lingiari[5] |
Maxtemp: | 28.8 |
Maxtemp Footnotes: | [6] |
Mintemp: | 13.2 |
Rainfall: | 297.3 |
Near-N: | Anmatjere Sandover |
Near-Ne: | Anatye |
Near-E: | Anatye |
Near-Se: | Anatye |
Near-S: | Hale Anatye |
Near-Sw: | Burt Plain |
Near-W: | Anmatjere Burt Plain |
Near-Nw: | Anmatjere |
Footnotes: | Adjoining localities[7] [8] |
Hart is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the territory's south-east about south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [2]
The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south):[9] [8]
It fully surrounds the community of Atitjere.[8] As of 2020, it has an area of .[3]
The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the Harts Range which was itself named in 1870 after John Hart who served as the Premier of South Australia for three terms between 1865 and 1871.[1]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Hart had a population of 169 of which 107 (61.8%) identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”
Hart is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the Central Desert Region.[5] [4] [1]