| Type: | suburb |
| Buchanan | |
| State: | nt |
| Coordinates: | -17.7056°N 129.715°W |
| Coord Ref: | [1] |
| Pop: | 55 |
| Established: | 4 April 2007 |
| Postcode: | 0852[2] |
| Elevation: | 403 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | (weather station) |
| Area: | 24252 |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Timezone: | ACST |
| Utc: | +9:30 |
| Dist1: | 612 |
| Dir1: | S |
| Location1: | Darwin |
| Dist2: | 473 |
| Dir2: | SW |
| Location2: | Katherine |
| Dist3: | 309 |
| Dir3: | SSE |
| Location3: | Kununurra |
| Lga: | Victoria Daly Region |
| Stategov: | Gwoja[4] |
| Fedgov: | Lingiari[5] |
| Maxtemp: | 33.0 |
| Maxtemp Footnotes: | [6] |
| Mintemp: | 17.4 |
| Rainfall: | 539.7 |
| Near-N: | Baines Gregory |
| Near-Sw: | Western Australia |
| Near-W: | Western Australia |
| Near-Nw: | Western Australia |
| Footnotes: | Locations[7] Adjoining localities[8] |
Buchanan is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the territory's west adjoining the border with the state of Western Australia about south of the territory capital of Darwin and about south-west of the municipal seat in Katherine.[1] [2] [7]
The locality consists of the following land (from north to south) – the Malngin and the Malngin 2 Aboriginal Land Trusts and the Limbunya pastoral lease, the Kirkimbie, Bunda, Inverway and Riveren pastoral leases, and the Wallamunga and Birrindudu pastoral leases. It has an area of .[3] [8] [7] [9]
The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the Nathaniel Buchanan, a pioneering drover who first brought cattle overland from Queensland to the Northern Territory in 1877.[1]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Buchanan had a population of 55 people.
Buchanan is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region.[5] [4] ][1]