Place Names Register Extract
Jukes Road
Extract date: 19/04/2024
| Name |
Jukes |
| Type Designation |
Road |
| Place Id |
24942 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Historical |
| Date Registered |
25 May 2018 |
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Humpty Doo |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Litchfield Council |
| History/Origin |
Jack Jukes arrived in Tennant Creek in July 1936. He was prospecting with his cousin Norman Blackman and jointly owned the Plain Jane Lease. He left Tennant Creek to enlist in the Army during World War II. Jack was a POW in the Middle East for 3 years, after which he returned to Sydney where he died. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 25/05/2018 |
|
Date added to the Register ( Certified Plan S2018/024) - DUPLICATED RECORD - (JUKES ROAD - See Place ID. 24813) |
The Northern Territory Gazetteer is maintained by the Place Names Section,
Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics.
GPO Box 1680, Darwin NT 0801. Ph 08 8995 5333.
place.names@nt.gov.au
© Northern Territory of Australia
The Northern Territory of Australia does not warrant that the information in this extract or any part of it
is correct or complete and will not be liable for any loss damage or injury suffered by any person as a
result of its inaccuracy or incompleteness. You are encouraged to notify any error or omission in the
material by calling the Place Names Section.