Anatye, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Anatye
State:nt
Coordinates:-23.064°N 136.829°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:111
Established:4 April 2007
Postcode:0872[2]
Elevation:328
Elevation Footnotes:(weather station)
Area:45033
Area Footnotes:[3]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:1307
Dir1:S
Location1:Darwin
Lga:Central Desert Region
Stategov:Namatjira[4]
Fedgov:Lingiari[5]
Maxtemp:31.0
Maxtemp Footnotes:[6]
Mintemp:14.6
Rainfall:286.9
Near-N:Sandover
Costello
Near-Ne:Queensland
Near-E:Queensland
Near-Se:Queensland
Near-S:Hale
Simpson
Near-Sw:Hale
Near-W:Sandover
Hart
Hale
Near-Nw:Sandover
Footnotes:Adjoining localities[7] [8]

Anatye is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the territory's east adjoining the border with the state of Queensland about south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [2]

The locality consists of the following land (from north to south, then west to east):[9] [8]

  1. Lucy Creek and Manners Creek pastoral leases
  2. Jervois and Tarlton Downs pastoral leases, the Anatye Aboriginal Land Trust (i.e. NT Portion 1815), and the Marqua and Tobermorey pastoral leases
  3. The remainder of the land in the Anatye Aboriginal Land Trust.

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 Anatye Aboriginal Land Trust which was established in 1991 initially in respect to land described as NT Portion 1815 located on the Plenty Highway and previously used as an “Animal Industry Branch research block.”[1] [10] [9]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Anatye had a population of 111 of which 62 (57.4%) identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”

Anatye 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Anatye . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 18 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Anatye Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 18 March 2020.
  3. Web site: Anatye . Australia’s Guide Pty Ltd.. 18 March 2020.
  4. Web site: Division of Namatjira . Northern Territory Electoral Commission . 18 March 2020 . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320144931/https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-namatjira . dead .
  5. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 18 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Jervois (nearest weather station that has current data) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 6 February 2020.
  7. Web site: Anatye . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 18 March 2020.
  8. Web site: Localities within Petermann-Simpson sub-region (CP 5080) . NT Place Names Register . Northern Territory Government . 18 March 2020.
  9. Web site: Northern Territory Pastoral Districts . 2015. 8 March 2020. Northern Territory Government. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228142837/https://www.ntca.org.au/node/527/attachment . 28 February 2019. dmy-all.
  10. News: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ABORIGINAL LAND TRUST NOTICE . . Australia . 12 June 1991 . 18 March 2020 . 1891 . Trove.