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11 unusual facts about Palmerston


Electoral division of Blain

Blain is an urban electorate, covering 18 km² and taking in the Palmerston suburbs of Moulden, Woodroffe, Zuccoli and the western half of Rosebery.

Electoral division of Braitling

The city of Alice Springs has, along with the Darwin satellite city of Palmerston, traditionally been one of two conservative bastions in the Northern Territory.

Electoral division of Drysdale

It covers 12 km², encompassing north-western suburban areas of Palmerston including the CBD and the suburbs of Driver, Durack, Gray and Yarrawonga.

Electoral division of Fong Lim

Fong Lim is located in the suburban corridor between Darwin and Palmerston.

Palmerston

Several prominent people have borne the title of Viscount Palmerston, and most or all the below places are named for one of them – especially for the third, most prominent of them.

Palmerston Boulevard – a notable residential street in the city of Toronto, Canada

Palmerston Park – home ground of Queen of the South F.C. in Dumfries, Scotland

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British Foreign minister and Prime Minister

Palmerston, Australian Capital Territory

A long fault aligned with the folds follows along the east side of Ginninderra Creek.

Palmerston, Ontario

Effective 1 Jan. 1999, The Town of Minto is composed of the former towns of Harriston and Palmerston, the former village of Clifford, and the surrounding rural area of the former Minto Township.

Top End

The Top End contains both of the Territory's cities and one of its major towns, Darwin, Palmerston and Katherine.


104.1 Territory FM

The station is broadcast on 104.1 Darwin and Palmerston and 98.7 Alice Springs and can also be heard across the Northern Territory in Batchelor, Katherine/Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River.

Adolphe Thiers

Nor is this eminence merely due to his great opportunity in 1870; for Guizot might under Louis Philippe have almost made himself a French Robert Walpole, at least a French Palmerston, and Lamartine's opportunities after 1848 were, for a man of political genius, unlimited.

Alverstoke

Several of Palmerston's Follies were sited within the parish, including Fort Gilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, where it sits across a wide curved natural headland (promontory) taken up by Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club.

Cambridge House

After Palmerston's death at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire in 1865, his body was taken to Cambridge House from which his funeral procession departed to Westminster Abbey.

Cape Palmerston National Park

It contains a land area of 7160 ha and has 28 km of coastline on each side of the Cape Palmerston—named by Captain James Cook in 1770 after Viscount Palmerston, a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty.

Charles Darwin University

The station is broadcast on 104.1 Darwin and Palmerston and 98.7 Alice Springs and can also be heard in Batchelor, Katherine / Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River.

Davie Irons

Irons returned to Palmerston Park under the new regime of Norman Blount to play for a Queen of the South select on 23 April 1995.

Drosera darwinensis

Drosera darwinensis grows in clayey sand from Palmerston to Berry Springs south of Darwin and east to Humpty Doo.

Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne

It was entirely in character that on her deathbed she urged her daughter Emily to be faithful, not to her husband, Lord Cowper but to her lover, Lord Palmerston ( Emily and Palmerston eventually married after Cowper's death).

Finnish Cricket Championships

The Finnish Cricket Championships hold their roots in the 1960s, when the "Palmerston community" played their first matches in Tapiola, Espoo.

Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken

His writings on English history have been translated by S. J. Macmullan and published as The British Empire, with essays on Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Palmerston, Beaconsfield, Gladstone, and reform of the House of Lords (1889).

James Tamou

Born in Palmerston North, Tamou began playing junior rugby league in Levin for the Levin Knights in New Zealand.

Jenny Greenteeth

Jenny Green Teeth (note the words are separated) is the title character in a book of short stories, Jenny Green Teeth and Other Short Stories (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9582446-3-4), by New Zealand-born English writer and Scholar Joel Hayward.

Jenny Green Teeth is also the main subject of a poem, "Welsh Maiden," by Joel Hayward in his collection, Lifeblood: A Book of Poems (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9582446-1-8).

John Thadeus Delane

He admired Palmerston and respected Lord Aberdeen, and was of considerable use to both; and it was Lord Aberdeen himself who, in 1845, told him of the impending repeal of the Corn Laws, an incident round which many incorrect stories have gathered.

Joseph John Thomas Pawelka

On April 20, 1910, Constables James Thompson and John Gallagher finally recaptured Pawelka at a cowshed in Ashhurst, an outlying Palmerston North suburb.

Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie

In Whig Society, 1775–1818 (1921) and Lady Palmerston and her Times (1922) were based on the papers of her great-grandmother, Emily (the wife of Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper, and later of Prime Minister Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston) and With the Guards We Shall Go (1933), which detailed her great-uncle, John Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden, through the Crimean War.

New Zealand State Highway 57

The highway passes north of the International Pacific College and through the outlying Palmerston North suburb of Summerhill.

Pahiatua

The Tararua District Council formed an alliance with the telecommunications companies Inspire Net, Inspired Networks, Digital Nation and FX Networks to link the four major towns in its jurisdiction to Palmerston North with a fibre optic cable.

Palmerston North City Library

The Palmerston North City Library is the main public library provided by the Palmerston North City Council for the residents of Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Palmerston–Little Italy

Made up of a series of Victorian homes on Markham Street which now house independently-owned shops, art studios, cafes, bookstores, boutiques and galleries.

Robert McLeod

Robert Macleod, Mayor of the City of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia

Second Opium War

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies

Graham Houghton, born in 1937 and raised in New Zealand, on a farm in the Manawatu near Palmerston North, was the founding principal.

United Kingdom general election, 1857

The election had been provoked by a vote of censure in Palmerston's government over his approach to the Arrow affair which led to the Second Opium War.

William Marsters

Palmerston Islanders still pride themselves on their British heritage – they fly the British flag on special occasions – have large photos of Queen Elizabeth in their homes, and remember fondly the visits of the Royal Yacht Britannia.

A handful of his descendants continue to live on Palmerston Island, while the majority now live in Rarotonga, or elsewhere in the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia.

William Thomas Wood

Wood was endorsed by Prime Minister Richard Seddon as the government candidate for the Palmerston (now Palmerston North) electorate in the 1899 general election, a measure by which Seddon demonstrated his opposition to Frederick Pirani.

Woodlands Fort

Woodland Fort is one of the Palmerston Forts that form Plymouth's North Eastern defences, whose purpose was to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from the possibility of a French attack, under the leadership of Napoleon III.