Burt Plain, Northern Territory
| Burt Plain Northern Territory | |
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Burt Plain is located in Northern Territory Burt Plain Burt Plain | |
| Coordinates | 23°23′21′′S 133°28′26′′E / 23.3893°S 133.474°E / -23.3893; 133.474 [1] |
| Population | 250 (2016 census)[2] |
| • Density | 0.0256/km2 (0.0662/sq mi) |
| Established | 4 April 2007[1] |
| Postcode(s) | 0872 [3] |
| Area | 9,777 km2 (3,774.9 sq mi)[4] |
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) |
| Location | 1,249 km (776 mi) S of Darwin City [3] |
| LGA(s) | MacDonnell Region [1] |
| Territory electorate(s) | Namatjira [5] |
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari [6] |
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28.9 °C 84 °F 13.3 °C 56 °F 282.8 mm 11.1 in | |
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Suburbs around Burt Plain: | |
| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[8] [9] |
Burt Plain is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 1,249 kilometres (776 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [3]
The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south):[10] [9]
- The Amburla and Yambah pastoral leases
- The Hamilton Downs and Bond Springs pastoral leases, and
- part of the West MacDonnell National Park at its eastern end.
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the natural feature of the same name which itself was named in 1871 after A.G. Burt, a member of the team building the Overland Telegraph Line.[1] As of 2020, it has an area of 9,777 square kilometres (3,775 sq mi).[4]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Burt Plain had 250 people living within its boundaries of which 215 (85%) identified as "Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people."[2]
Burt Plain is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.[6] [5] [8]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e "Place Names Register Extract for Burt Plain". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Burt Plain (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 April 2020. Edit this at Wikidata
- ^ a b c "Burt Plain Postcode". postcode-finders.com.au. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Burt Plain". Australia’s Guide Pty Ltd. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Division of Namatjira". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Lingiari". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Localities within McDonnell Shire (sic) (map)" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Localities within the Alice Springs Sub-region (CP5075)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 29 November 2006. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Northern Territory Pastoral Districts". Northern Territory Government. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.