Charlotte, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Charlotte
State:nt
Coordinates:-12.846°N 130.794°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:18
Established:4 April 2007
Postcode:0822[2]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:36
Dir1:S
Location1:Darwin City
Lga:Unincorporated area
Stategov:Daly[3]
Fedgov:Lingiari[4]
Maxtemp:33.7
Maxtemp Footnotes:[5]
Mintemp:21.2
Rainfall:1564.4
Near-N:Cox Peninsula
Near-Ne:Blackmore
Near-E:Blackmore
Darwin River
Collett Creek
Near-Se:Finniss Valley
Near-S:Rakula
Near-Sw:Rakula
Near-Nw:Cox Peninsula
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining localities[6] [7]

Charlotte is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territorial capital of Darwin.[1] [2]

It consists of land within the boundaries of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Hughes in the north and those parts of the hundreds of Finniss and Hart bounded by the Finniss River in the south.[6]

It is named after the Charlotte River which was mapped along with the Annie River in 1869 by a survey team from the South Australian government expedition led by George Goyder. The official source suggests that the two rivers were named after family members of persons within the survey team. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007.[1]

The Cox Peninsula Road passes throughout the top of the locality with the following roads branching off to the west and the south respectively – the Fog Bay Road and the Litchfield Park Road.

The Kangaroo Flats Training Area, an Australian Defence Force facility, is located within the locality’s boundaries.[8]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Charlotte had 18 people living within its boundaries.

Charlotte is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.[4] [6] [3] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Charlotte . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 18 April 2019.
  2. Web site: Charlotte Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 18 April 2019.
  3. Web site: Division of Daly. Northern Territory Electoral Commission. 18 April 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.
  4. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 18 April 2019.
  5. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics BATCHELOR AIRPORT (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 18 April 2019.
  6. Web site: Charlotte . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 19 April 2019.
  7. Web site: Localities within Un-Incorporated area (map). Northern Territory Government. 19 April 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20190318101726/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/404784/Dundee_A3.pdf. 18 March 2019. dead.
  8. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Charlotte (map). NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 18 April 2019.