| Type: | suburb |
| Nicholson | |
| State: | nt |
| Coordinates: | -18.5039°N 137.2185°W |
| Coord Ref: | [1] |
| Pop: | 60 |
| Established: | 4 April 2007 |
| Postcode: | 0862[2] |
| Area: | 26671 |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Timezone: | ACST |
| Utc: | +9:30 |
| Dist1: | 963 |
| Dir1: | SE |
| Location1: | Darwin |
| Lga: | Barkly Region |
| Stategov: | Barkly[4] |
| Fedgov: | Lingiari[5] |
| Maxtemp: | 32.9 |
| Maxtemp Footnotes: | [6] |
| Mintemp: | 17.7 |
| Rainfall: | 398.9 |
| Near-N: | Calvert |
| Near-Ne: | Queensland |
| Near-E: | Queensland |
| Near-Se: | Queensland |
| Near-S: | Ranken |
| Near-W: | Creswell Tablelands |
| Near-Nw: | Calvert |
| Footnotes: | Adjoining localities[7] [8] |
Nicholson is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the territory's east adjoining the border with the state of Queensland about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [2]
The locality consists of the following land (from north to south, then west to east):[9] [8]
As of 2020, it has an area of .[3]
The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the Nicholson River which was named by the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt during his 1844/45 expedition after "Dr William Alleyne Nicholson of Bristol, England."[1] [10]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Nicholson had a population of 60 people.
Nicholson is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Barkly Region.[5] [4] [1]