Place Names Register Extract
Gove Peninsula
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Gove Peninsula |
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| Type Designation | Peninsula |
| Place Id | 13243 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 17' S (Decimal degrees -12.2886) | |
| Longitude: 136° 49' E (Decimal degrees 136.8285) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| East Arnhem | |
| Local Government Area | |
| East Arnhem Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | The name was first applied in the area in the 1940s to a wartime airstrip constructed on the Peninsula. The strip was named after W J H Gove, a pilot officer with the RAAF who was killed while on service near Milingimbi in 1943. The name has since been used to describe the Peninsula and western Harbour area. In 1963, Surveyor-General AR Miler advised National Mapping that the Gove Peninsula is "that area of Arnhem Land east of a line drawn from the mouth of the Giddy River in Melville Bay to the mouth of Wonga Creek at Port Bradshaw." |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
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| (None Found) |