Place Names Register Extract
Alawa
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Alawa |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Suburb |
| Place Id | 2003 |
| Place Type | Administrative Area |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 4 April 1984 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 22' S (Decimal degrees -12.3798) | |
| Longitude: 130° 52' E (Decimal degrees 130.8732) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| (None Found) | |
| Lot/Portion | |
| Town of Nightcliff | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Darwin City Council | |
| History/Origin | One of Darwin's northern suburbs constructed in the late 1960's, named after the Alawa tribal group of Aboriginal people in the upper reaches of the Hodgson river and west to Roper valley area. Tindale in "Aboriginal Tribes of Australia" (1974) records the alternate spellings for the tribal group as Alaua, Allawa, Allaua, Allua, Allowa. The street names in Alawa commemorate the residents and workers, at the old Post Office, who were killed in the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1942, and the boats and people associated with the early settlement of Palmerston (Port Darwin). The suburb boundary, as approved on 8 March 2007, is deliniated on CP 5076. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 04/04/1984 | NTG13 | |
| 03/04/2007 | Revocation of NTG13 04/04/1984 gazettal and naming with new boundaries | |
| 04/04/2007 | NTG14 | Notice of naming |