Mandorah, Northern Territory

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Mandorah
Northern Territory
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Mandorah
Coordinates 12°26′58″S130°45′27″E / 12.449432°S 130.757617°E / -12.449432; 130.757617 [1]
Population0 (2016 census) [2]
Established4 December 2002 [1]
Postcode(s) 0822
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
Location
LGA(s) Wagait Shire [1]
Territory electorate(s) Daly [3]
Federal division(s) Lingiari [4]
Mean max temp [5] Mean min temp [5] Annual rainfall [5]
32.0 °C
90 °F		23.2 °C
74 °F		1,725.1 mm
67.9 in
Suburbs around Mandorah:
Wagait Beach Wagait Beach
Darwin Harbour 		Darwin Harbour
Wagait Beach
Cox Peninsula 		Mandorah Darwin Harbour
Cox Peninsula Cox Peninsula Darwin Harbour
FootnotesAdjoining localities [6]

Mandorah is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. Its local government area is the Wagait Shire. At the 2016 census, Mandorah had no people living within its boundaries. [2]

The locality of Mandorah on the Cox Peninsula, across the harbour from Darwin, is named after "Mandorah", a guest house built in what is now the locality by Allan Hartwig prior to 1948. [7]

In 2019 the Northern Territory Government announced it would spend up to $50 million to replace the Mandorah jetty, construct a breakwater to protect it from damage during storms, and construct a boat ramp. The original jetty was built in the 1960s and repaired several times since it was damaged by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The temporary repairs had posed difficulties for disabled people wanting to use the ferry service. Wagait Shire welcomed the project as an opportunity to encourage economic development in the Cox Peninsula. [8] [9]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 "Place Names Register Extract for Mandorah". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wagait Beach (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 April 2019. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ "Division of Daly". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Federal electoral division of Lingiari". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics DARWIN AIRPORT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Mandorah". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Territory Origins". Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  8. ↑ Mitchell Abram; Matt Garrick (7 February 2019). "'We might get our pub back': $50 million jetty replacement gives town new hope". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  9. ↑ Eldin Ganic (1 December 2020). "Technical concept design unveiled for Mandorah marine facilities". Dredging Today. Navingo. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

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