Davenport, Northern Territory Explained

Type:	suburb
Davenport
State:	nt
Coordinates:	-20.8962°N 134.818°W
Coord Ref:	^[1]
Pop:	178
Established:	4 April 2007
Postcode:	0872^[2]
Area:	28761
Area Footnotes:	^[3]
Timezone:	ACST
Utc:	+9:30
Dist1:	1057
Dir1:	S
Location1:	Darwin
Lga:	Barkly Region
Stategov:	Barkly^[4]
Fedgov:	Lingiari^[5]
Maxtemp:	31.0
Maxtemp Footnotes:	^[6]
Mintemp:	14.6
Rainfall:	286.9
Footnotes:	Adjoining localities^[7] ^[8]

Davenport is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin.^{[1] [2]}

History

The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the mountain range which was named in 1860 by John McDouall Stuart as the Davenport Range after Samuel Davenport, a South Australian politician.^[1]

Davenport includes the following places that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register – the Barrow Creek Hotel, the Barrow Creek Telegraph Station and the Neutral Junction Homestead (Old).^{[9] [10] [11]}

Description

The locality consists of the following land (from west to east):^{[12] [8]}

1. The Singleton and Neutral Junction pastoral leases
2. The Kurundi and Murray Downs pastoral leases, and the Mungkarta Aboriginal Lands Trust (also spelt Mungarta and also known as McLaren Creek^{[13] [14]})
3. The Epenarra pastoral lease, the Warumungu and Anurrete Aboriginal Lands Trusts and the Elkedra pastoral lease

The locality fully surrounds the communities of Ali Curung, Tara and Wutungurra.^[7] As of 2020, it has an area of .^[3]

Demographics

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Davenport had 178 people living within its boundaries of which 59.4% were male, 40.6% were female and 59.3% who identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”

Governance

Davenport is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Barkly Region.^{[5] [4] [1]}

References

Citations

Notes and References

1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Davenport . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 4 February 2020.
2. Web site: Davenport Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 4 February 2020.
3. Web site: Davenport . Australia’s Guide Pty Ltd.. 5 February 2020.
4. Web site: Division of Barkly . Northern Territory Electoral Commission . 26 April 2019 . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320143955/https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-barkly . dead .
5. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 6 February 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: Davenport . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 12 March 2020.
8. Web site: Localities within Barkly South sub-region (CP 5086) . NT Place Names Register . Northern Territory Government . 12 March 2020.
9. Web site: Barrow Creek Hotel . Heritage Register . Northern Territory Government . 5 February 2020 . 11 April 2009.
10. Web site: Barrow Creek Telegraph Station . Heritage Register . Northern Territory Government . 5 February 2020 . 19 October 2002.
11. Web site: Neutral Junction Homestead (Old) . Heritage Register . Northern Territory Government . 5 February 2020 . 24 February 2001.
12. 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.
13. Web site: BushTel – Remote Communities of the NT . BushTel . 28 January 2024.
14. Web site: McLaren Creek . bonzle.com . 28 January 2024.