Place Names Register Extract

Valencia Island

Extract date: 27/04/2024

Name	Valencia Island
Type Designation	Island
Place Id	19295
Place Type	Feature
Status	Recorded
Date Registered
Location (Datum GDA94)
	Latitude: -11° 22' S (Decimal degrees -11.3833)
	Longitude: 132° 46' E (Decimal degrees 132.7833)
Locality / Suburb
	West Arnhem
Local Government Area
	West Arnhem Shire Council
History/Origin	PP King named the island on 11 April 1818 deriving the name of the island from the Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris (see Annesley Point, Mountnorris Bay). Although named by King in 1818 as Valentia Island, GW Goyder in his 1885 Pastoral Compilation of the Northern Territory shows the island name as Valencia Island - the name used on successive topographic maps of the NT.

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
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