Connellan, Northern Territory

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Connellan
Alice Springs,  Northern Territory
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Connellan
Connellan, Northern Territory
Coordinates 23°46′31″S133°54′32″E / 23.77528°S 133.90889°E / -23.77528; 133.90889 [1]
Population400 (partly shared) (2016 census) [2] [lower-alpha 1]
Postcode(s) 0870
LGA(s) Town of Alice Springs
Territory electorate(s) Braitling
Federal division(s) Lingiari
Mean max temp [4] Mean min temp [4] Annual rainfall [4]
28.9 °C
84 °F
13.3 °C
56 °F
282.8 mm
11.1 in
Suburbs around Connellan:
Kilgariff Ross Amoonguna
Hugh Connellan Hale
Hugh Hale Hale

Connellan is a suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Connellan is situated in the Arrernte traditional Aboriginal country. [5]

The suburb is named after the aviator Edward Connellan. [1] Connellan is also the location of the Alice Springs Airport.

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Notes

  1. For the 2016 census, the "State Suburb of Connellan" included any people in the adjoining suburb of Kilgariff who lived on the south side of Colonel Rose Drive. [2] [3]

Citations

  1. 1 2 "Connellan". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Connellan (NT)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 25 September 2017. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. "Suburb of Kilgariff – Alice Springs, (compiled plan) CP 5436" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 23 May 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  5. "C8: Arrernte". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Federal government. 26 July 2019. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2021.