Gurindji, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Gurindji
State:nt
Coordinates:-18.156°N 130.781°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:17
Established:4 April 2007
Postcode:0852[2]
Elevation:196
Elevation Footnotes:(weather station)
Area:32372
Area Footnotes:[3]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:549
Dir1:S
Location1:Darwin
Lga2:Victoria Daly Region
Stategov:Gwoja[4]
Fedgov:Lingiari[5]
Maxtemp:34.3
Maxtemp Footnotes:[6]
Mintemp:19.0
Rainfall:694.8
Near-N:Gregory
Victoria River
Near-E:Tanami East
Near-Se:Tanami East
Near-S:Tanami
Near-Sw:Tanami
Near-W:Buchanan
Tanami
Footnotes:Adjoining localities[7]

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

The locality consists of the following land (from north to south, then west to east):[8] [7]

  1. The Daguragu Aboriginal Land Trust, the Wave Hill and Cattle Creek pastoral leases, and the Wampana-Karlantijpa Aboriginal Land Trust,
  2. The Hooker Creek Aboriginal Land Trust, and
  3. Land at the northern end of the Central Desert Aboriginal Land Trust.

The locality fully surrounds the communities of Daguragu, Kalkarindji and Lajamanu.[7] As of 2020, it has an area of .[3]

The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its boundaries were altered on 27 August 2014 to gain most of the land in the locality of Lajamanu with exception to that containing the Lajamanu community. Its name is derived from “the Gurindji tribe of Aboriginals who walked off the Wave Hill Pastoral Station in protest of lack of wages.”[1] [7] [9]

Gurindji includes the historic site, the Gurindji Wave Hill Walk Off Route, which was listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 27 October 2006.[10]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Gurindji had 17 people living within its boundaries.

Gurindji is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government areas of the Central Desert Region and the Victoria Daly Region.[5] [4] [1] [9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Gurindji (locality). NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 20 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Gurindji Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 3 February 2020.
  3. Web site: Gurindji (area). Australias Guide Pty Ltd.. 3 February 2020.
  4. Web site: Division of Namatjira. Northern Territory Electoral Commission. 3 February 2020. 20 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200320144619/https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-stuart. dead.
  5. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 3 February 2020.
  6. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary Wave Hill (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 3 February 2020.
  7. Web site: Localities within Victoria River sub-region (CP-5459) . NT Place Names Register . Northern Territory Government . 28 May 2014 . 21 March 2020.
  8. Web site: Northern Territory Pastoral Properties . 2003. 3 February 2020. Northern Territory Government. https://web.archive.org/web/20150409202959/http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf. 9 April 2015. dmy-all.
  9. Web site: Localities within Victoria-Daly Shire (sic) (map) . Northern Territory Government . 25 January 2020. 2 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180324213440/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/404785/Victoria-daly_A3map_000.pdf. 24 March 2018.
  10. Web site: Gurindji Wave Hill Walk Off Route . Heritage Register . Northern Territory Government . 20 March 2020 . 27 October 2006 .