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5 unusual facts about Palmerston, Northern Territory


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.

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.

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.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Australian Protective Service

Protection of sensitive defence establishments, including Defence Headquarters at Russell Offices in Canberra; the joint Australian/US communications facility at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory; the former atomic testing site at Maralinga in South Australia; the Australian Defence Signals facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station at Exmouth, both in Western Australia

Australian Super Sedan Championship

New South Wales driver Grenville Anderson (1951-2004), holds the record for most championship wins with four titles to his name - 1975/76 (Rowley Park Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia), 1977/78 (Claremont Speedway in Perth, Western Australia), 1979/80 (Bagot Park in Darwin, Northern Territory), and 1992/93 (Latrobe Speedway in Latrobe, Tasmania).

Balancing rock

Many good examples of erosional remnants are seen in the Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve in the Northern Territory of Australia.

C. W. M. Hart

Charles William Merton Hart (1905–1976) was a social anthropologist and sociologist best known for his study of the Tiwi people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands (or Tiwi Islands) in north Australia during the 1920s.

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.

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra

The Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an orchestra based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, founded by Martin Jarvis.

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.

Eremophila alternifolia

alternifolia occurs in arid areas of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory and the Barrier Range in New South Wales, in many different habitats with stony or red soil.

Exercise Pitch Black

Although the 2000, 2004 and 2006 exercises were held in the Northern Territory, the 2002 exercise was scaled down and held at RAAF Bases Amberley and Williamtown, on the Australian east coast.

Gametraders

As of May 2013, there are 17 Gametraders stores across Australia in all states except the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

Gerry Wood

Wood worked in Daly River and Bathurst Island as a young man, working in a number of careers, including running a tourist operation and working as the town clerk of Nguiu.

Gulumbu Yunupingu

Gulumbu Yunupingu (c. 1943 – 10 May 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Isadore Samuel Emanuel

At this stage the Emanuels entered into a business partnership in 1902 with Sidney Kidman and acquired a property in the neighbouring Northern Territory, Victoria River Downs Station.

Jameson cell

Also in 1989, Peko Mines, then a division of North Broken Hill Peko Limited, engaged Professor Jameson to undertake test work in its Warrego concentrator near Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory.

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.

Lateline

Reporter Suzanne Smith in 2005 won a Logie Award for "Most Outstanding News Coverage" for her story about sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

Les Gilbert

In 1990, Gilbert released a "Natural Symphony" CD titled Kakadu Billiabong which is an unedited, high quality recording of dawn at a billabong on Nourlangie Creek in Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory.

LGBT history in Australia

In 2004, the Northern Territory removed legislative discrimination against same-sex couples in most areas of territory law, and the ACT began allowing same-sex couples to adopt.

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.

Mertens' water monitor

The monitor is found in coastal and inland waters across much of northern Australia, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, across the Top End of the Northern Territory and the Gulf Country, to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland.

Mount Pluto

Mount Pluto, Australia, a volcanic cone associated with Mount Hutton and Mount Playfair, in Northern Territory

Mudginberri dispute

The Mudginberri station is some 250 km east of Darwin along the Arnhem Highway in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Nabarlek

The nabarlek is found in three distinct population areas: in Arnhem Land (including Groote Eylandt); between the Mary and Victoria Rivers in the Top End; and the coastal Kimberley region of Western Australia, including some islands in the Bonaparte Archipelago.

New Zealand State Highway 57

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

No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit RAAF

While 1RSU's headquarters are located at RAAF Base Edinburgh the unit also has personnel stationed at the JORN sites near Longreach in Queensland, Alice Springs in the Northern Territory and Laverton in Western Australia.

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–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.

Pilbara Regiment

It is responsible for an area of 1.3 million square kilometres from Port Hedland to Carnarvon in Western Australia, and from the coast to the border with the Northern Territory; being approximately one-sixth of the total Australia mass.

Red Goshawk

Sites identified by BirdLife International as being important for Red Goshawk conservation are Lilyvale in Far North Queensland, Kakadu Savanna and the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, and Mornington Sanctuary in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Robert McLeod

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

Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Adelaide based in Darwin, 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 Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.

Stylidium dunlopianum

S. dunlopianums distribution ranges from the Mitchell River area in Western Australia east to the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.

Wangga

Wangga (sometimes spelt as Wongga) is an indigenous Australian genre of traditional music and ceremony which originated in northern areas of the country from South Alligator River south east towards Ngukurr, south to the Katherine region of Northern Territory and west into the Kimberley of Western Australia.

Warumungu language

The Warumungu (or Warramunga) language is spoken by about 500 of the Warumungu people in Australia's Northern Territory.

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.


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