Hugh, Northern Territory should not be confused with Hughes, Northern Territory.
| Type: | suburb |
| Hugh | |
| State: | nt |
| Coordinates: | -24.3438°N 133.61°W |
| Coord Ref: | [1] |
| Pop: | 865 |
| Established: | 4 April 2007 |
| Postcode: | 0872[2] |
| Area: | 9568 |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Timezone: | ACST |
| Utc: | +9:30 |
| Dist1: | 1328 |
| Dir1: | S |
| Location1: | Darwin City |
| Lga: | MacDonnell Region |
| Stategov: | Namatjira[4] |
| Fedgov: | Lingiari[5] |
| Maxtemp: | 28.9 |
| Maxtemp Footnotes: | [6] |
| Mintemp: | 13.3 |
| Rainfall: | 282.8 |
| Near-N: | Burt Plain |
| Near-Ne: | Burt Plain White Gums Arumbera |
| Near-E: | Connellan Hale Ghan |
| Near-Se: | Ghan |
| Near-S: | Ghan |
| Near-Sw: | Ghan |
| Near-W: | Burt Plain Namatjira Ghan |
| Near-Nw: | Burt Plain |
| Footnotes: | Adjoining localities[7] [8] |
Hugh is a locality in the Northern Territory, Australia, located about south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [2]
The locality consists of the following land from north to south – the Owen Springs, the Orange Creek and the Maryvale pastoral leases.[9] [7] [8]
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the river which flows through the locality and which was named as a creek by John McDouall Stuart in 1860 after a Hugh Chambers. It fully surrounds the community of Titjikala. As of 2020, it has an area of .[1] [3]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Hugh had 865 people living within its boundaries of which 687 (78.9%) identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”
Hugh is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.[5] [4] [7]