Darwin Harbour

Looking towards the city over Darwin Harbour
A sunken ship (MV Neptuna) and burnt-out wharf in Darwin Harbour following the attack on Darwin (AWM 027334)

Darwin Harbour is a body of water close to the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the traditional waterways of the Larrakia people.[1]

It opens to the north at a line from Charles Point in the west to Lee Point in the east into the Beagle Gulf and connects via the Clarence Strait with the Van Diemen Gulf.[2] It contains Port Darwin, which is flanked by Frances Bay to the east and Cullen Bay to the west.

  1. ^ "'They need to be protected at all costs': Traditional owners fear for cultural sites at $1.5 billion industrial hub". ABC News. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. ^ N Smit, R Billyard and L Ferns: Beagle Gulf Benthic Survey: Characterisation of soft substrates. Archived March 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Technical Report No. 66 (2000), Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory.