Place Names Register Extract
Channel Island
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Channel Island |
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| Type Designation | Island |
| Place Id | 11692 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 33' S (Decimal degrees -12.5534) | |
| Longitude: 130° 52' E (Decimal degrees 130.8667) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Channel Island | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Litchfield Council | |
| History/Origin | Channel Island first appears named on Goyder's "Plan of Port Darwin" of 1869 but probably goes back to Stokes discovery and naming of Port Darwin in 1839. Bennett's 1865 plan showing the explorations of Auld, Finniss and Litchfield out from Escape Cliffs shows an area in Middle Arm which resembles what is now known as Channel Island. In 1929 a new Quarantine station was established on Channel Island and in October 1931 a leprosarium was opened for 48 lepers (17 being transferred from the Cossack Lazaret in Western Australia). The Channel Island Leprosarium closed in 1955 when the last patients were transferred to the new Leprosarium on the East Arm peninsula, accessed from what is now Berrimah. Channel Island was chosen for a power house in the late 1970 due to its distance from Darwin's population and need for deep water access for ships bringing coal to fuel the power house. The power house, constructed in the mid 1980s is fueled by natural gas piped from Central Australia, over 1500km away. |
Register & Gazettal information
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