Fly Creek Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 12°48′04.40″S131°04′07.64″E / 12.8012222°S 131.0687889°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 166 (2016 census) [1] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs [2] [3] |
Fly Creek is an outer rural locality in Darwin. The area was named by surveyor William Harvey, a member of George Goyder's parties, who came across a watercourse and was likely worried by flies in the vicinity. [4]