Knuckey Lagoon
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Knuckey Lagoon | |||||||||||||
Interactive map of Knuckey Lagoon | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 12°25′33″S 130°56′32″E / 12.42583°S 130.94222°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Northern Territory | ||||||||||||
| City | Darwin | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1869 | ||||||||||||
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| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 413 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 0828 | ||||||||||||
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Knuckey Lagoon is an outer suburban area in Darwin. It is 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the Litchfield Municipality. The suburb is mostly a rural area, on the fringe of Metropolitan Darwin. The area was named by Surveyor General G W Goyder after his Senior Surveyor, Richard Randall Knuckey.[5]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Knuckey Lagoon (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Knuckey Lagoon (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Knuckey Lagoon". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ "The Origin of Suburbs, Localities, Towns and Hundreds in the Greater Darwin area". Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
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