Palmerston is a planned satellite city of Darwin, the capital and largest city of Australia's Northern Territory. The city is situated approximately 20 kilometres from Darwin and 10 kilometres from Howard Springs and the surrounding rural areas. Palmerston had a population of 33,695 at the 2016 census, making it the second largest city in the Northern Territory.
George Woodroffe Goyder was a surveyor in the Colony of South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Adelaide River is a small but historically significant town located at the crossing of the Stuart Highway over the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The town is upstream of the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains Important Bird Area. At the 2021 census, Adelaide River had a population of 317. Adelaide River is part of the Coomalie Shire and is the second largest settlement in the local government area.
The North Australia Railway was a 509 km (316 mi) 1,067 mm narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory of Australia which ran from the territory capital of Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just south of Larrimah. Initially its name was the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway. The first section was opened 1889, the last in 1929. The railway closed in 1976.
Sir Arthur Blyth was Premier of South Australia three times; 1864–65, 1871–72 and 1873–75.
Roseberry County is one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia. The County of Rosebery was gazetted on 15 July 1885 and covered the area north of Pine Creek. The county was not subdivided into hundreds.
The Hundred of Bagot is the cadastral unit of hundred for the city of Darwin, Northern Territory and the city of Palmerston. It includes the Local Government Areas of the City of Darwin, the northern part of the City of Palmerston and part of the north-western edge of the Shire of Litchfield.
Southport is an outer rural locality in Darwin. It is based on the site of the abandoned Town of Southport, a thriving river port during the Pine Creek gold rush of the 1870s. It is located at the junction of the Blackmore and Darwin Rivers.
Paul Foelsche was a South Australian police officer and photographer born in Germany, remembered for his work in the Northern Territory of Australia from 1870 to 1904.
County of Disraeli is one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia.
County of Gladstone was one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia.
The Hundred of Hutchison is a hundred in the Northern Territory of Australia within the former County of Palmerston.
The Hundred of Glyde is a Hundred of Palmerston County, Northern Territory Australia.
The Hundred of Milne is a cadastral unit of hundred in Palmerston County, Northern Territory, Australia.
The Hundred of Cavenagh is a Hundred of Palmerston County, Northern Territory Australia.
The Hundred of Howard is a hundred of Palmerston County, Northern Territory Australia.
The Hundred of Blyth is a hundred of Palmerston County, Northern Territory, Australia.
County of Malmesbury was one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia.
Rakula is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 72 kilometres (45 mi) south-west of the territorial capital of Darwin.
Francis Edward Goldsmith MRCSL, often referred to as Edward Goldsmith, was a medical doctor in South Australia remembered for his time as the first surgeon and Protector of Aborigines of the pioneering settlement at Escape Cliffs, Northern Territory of Australia under B. T. Finniss. Within a year Finniss had demanded his resignation, citing insubordination.
