Farrar, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Farrar
City:Darwin
State:nt
Alternative Location Map:Australia Darwin
Coordinates:-12.478°N 130.991°W
Lga:City of Palmerston
Postcode:0830
Est:1990s
Pop:1,518
Local Map:yes
Zoom:12
Stategov:Johnston
Fedgov:Lingiari
Near-Nw:Yarrawonga
Near-N:Holtze
Near-Ne:Holtze
Near-W:Palmerston City
Near-E:Howard Springs
Near-Sw:Bakewell
Near-S:Gunn
Near-Se:Zuccoli
Dist1:21.7
Location1:Darwin
Dist2:1.1

Farrar is an outer eastern suburb of Palmerston. It is 21 km SE of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston. Farrar is bounded to the north and east by the Stuart Highway, to the west Roystonea Avenue. Farrar was originally part of Gunn when Palmerston was divided into suburbs in 1984. It is on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people.[1]

The development of Palmerston's eastern suburbs did not start in the 1990s as designed in 1984 and the suburb of Gunn of 1998 was larger. It was decided in 1999 to allocate a new name to the area of Gunn between the old and new Stuart Highway alignments.

The suburb is named after John Farrar, a pastoral pioneer of the Northern Territory.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-03-31 . The Larrakia People . 2024-02-24 . Larrakia Nation . en-US.