Glyde Point, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Glyde Point
State:nt
Local Map:yes
Zoom:12
Coordinates:-12.1806°N 131.079°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:0
Established:4 April 2007
Postcode:0822[2]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:37
Dir1:NE
Location1:Darwin
Lga:Litchfield Municipality
Stategov:Nelson[3]
Fedgov:Lingiari[4]
Maxtemp:32.1
Maxtemp Footnotes:[5]
Mintemp:23.2
Rainfall:1725.1
Near-E:Vernon Islands
Koolpinyah
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining localities[6] [7]

Glyde Point is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about north-east of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [2]

Glyde Point is located on land on the south coast of the Clarence Strait which overlooks the Vernon Islands. This locality is named after the point of the same name which was named in the 1860s possibly after Lavington Glyde, a former member of the South Australian Parliament. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007.[6] [1]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Glyde Point had no people living within its boundaries.

In 2019, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that consideration was being given to building a port facility within the locality at Glyde Point that could be used by the Royal Australian Navy and the US Marine Corps.[8] This was proposed in response to the 99-year lease of Port Darwin to a company owned by a Chinese Communist Party-connected billionaire.[9]

Glyde Point is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Nelson and within the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.[4] [3] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Glyde Point . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 16 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Glyde Point Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 16 May 2019.
  3. Web site: Division of Nelson . Northern Territory Electoral Commission . 16 May 2019 . 3 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190503115444/https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-nelson . dead .
  4. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 16 May 2019.
  5. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics DARWIN AIRPORT (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 1 May 2019.
  6. Web site: Glyde Point . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 16 May 2019.
  7. Web site: Litchfield Municipality Localities (map) . Northern Territory Government . 16 May 2019 . 29 October 1997 . 18 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190318101346/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/404774/LitchfieldA3map.pdf . dead .
  8. News: Greene . Andrew . Park . Michael . Secret plans for new port outside Darwin to accommodate visiting US Marines . ABC News . 23 June 2019 . 23 June 2019.
  9. Web site: New Darwin port would 'counterbalance' 99-year Chinese company lease: Liberal MP. Gibson. Jano. 2019-06-24. ABC News. en-AU. 2019-06-27.