Atitjere, Northern Territory Explained

Atitjere
Type:suburb
State:nt
Coordinates:-22.9821°N 134.9328°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:224
Pop Year:2016
Postcode:0872[2]
Elevation:661
Elevation Footnotes:(weather station)
Area:7
Area Footnotes:[3]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:1247
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:Hart
Near-E:Hart
Near-Se:Hart
Near-S:Hart
Near-Sw:Hart
Near-Nw:Hart
Footnotes:Adjoining localities[7] [8]

Atitjere is a community in Akityarre Ward of the Central Desert Region in the Northern Territory of Australia.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Atitjere had a population of 224 of which 173 (77.9%) 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Atitjere . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 19 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Atitjere Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 19 March 2020.
  3. Web site: Hart . Australia’s Guide Pty Ltd.. 19 March 2020.
  4. Web site: Division of Namatjira . Northern Territory Electoral Commission . 19 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. 19 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics ARLTUNGA (nearest weather station that has current data) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 19 March 2020.
  7. Web site: Atitjere . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 19 March 2020.
  8. Web site: Localities within Petermann-Simpson sub-region (CP 5080) . NT Place Names Register . Northern Territory Government . 19 March 2020.