Place Names Register Extract
Southport
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Southport |
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| Type Designation | Town |
| Place Id | 21673 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Historical |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 43' S (Decimal degrees -12.722364) | |
| Longitude: 130° 56' E (Decimal degrees 130.949411) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Southport | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Litchfield Council | |
| History/Origin | Southport was established in 1870 at the junction of the Darwin and Blackmore Rivers to service the hinterland of the greater Darwin area. Southport is so named as it was the southern port on Port darwin. During the 1870s Pine Creek gold rush Southport was the largest populated place in the Northern Territory, far larger than Palmerston (now Darwin). With the construction of the railway in the 1880s, Southport declined and it was not until the 1970s that people came back to live on the town blocks surveyed in 1869. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
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| (None Found) |