Place Names Register Extract
Cloud Road
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View in NT Atlas | Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Cloud |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Road |
| Place Id | 25035 |
| Place Type | Road |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 6 May 2022 |
| Locality / Suburb | |
| Wishart | |
| Local Government Area | |
| History/Origin | The name 'Cloud Road' is derived from information and communications technology (ICT) terminology describing the network of remote data servers accessed via the internet, and increasingly housed in large dedicated data centres. The name highlights the industrial identity of the greater Wishart area and, more specifically, the identification of the immediate area for the Northern Territory's developing ICT industry. The name 'Cloud' also shares an historical association with the shipwrecked nineteenth century cutter, Flying Cloud. The Flying Cloud was a 28 tonne wooden sailing vessel built in 1870 and which entered service in Port Darwin in late 1872. With the local introduction of steam, she was sold off and being fitted up as a pearling vessel when in 1894 she was wrecked in a storm in Frances Bay, Darwin Harbour. (Source: Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment) |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 06/05/2022 | Plan S2022/031 |