Middle Point, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Middle Point
City:Darwin
State:nt
Coordinates:-12.599°N 131.3261°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Local Map:yes
Zoom:11
Pop:58
Established:29 July 1998
Postcode:0822[2]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:53
Dir1:E
Location1:Darwin City
Lga:Litchfield Municipality
Stategov:Goyder[3]
Fedgov:Lingiari[4]
Near-Ne:Marrakai
Near-S:Lambells Lagoon
Wak Wak
Marrakai
Near-Sw:Lambells Lagoon
Near-W:Koolpinyah
Lambells Lagoon
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining suburbs[5] [6]

Middle Point is an administrative locality in the Northern Territory of Australia.

This locality derives its name from the ridge of fertile land sticking into the edge of the coastal plains of the Adelaide River.

Some features of this locality are

  1. a former CSIRO Research Station,
  2. a school (the Middle Point School)http://web.ntschools.net/w/tegs/Pages/Middle-Point.aspx,
  3. a Department of Defence Transmitting Station http://www.defence.gov.au/id/_Master/docs/NCRP/NT/0106HumptyDooTransmittingStationNT.pdf,
  4. assorted farms,
  5. Harrison Dam http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?metadata_id=2DBCB771211F06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE&type=html,
  6. Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve
  7. and was the home of the failed Humpty Doo Rice Project http://www.ricetrail.com.au/.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Middle Point had 58 people living within its boundaries.

Middle Point is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Goyder and the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.[4] [3] [6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for "Middle Point" . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 13 June 2019.
  2. Web site: Middle Point Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 13 June 2019.
  3. Web site: Division of Goyder . Northern Territory Electoral Commission. 13 June 2019.
  4. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 13 June 2019.
  5. Web site: Middle Point . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 4 May 2019.
  6. Web site: Litchfield Municipality Localities . Place Names Committee . Northern Territory Government . 4 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190318101346/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/404774/LitchfieldA3map.pdf . 18 March 2019 . dead .