| Southport Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 12°43′20″S 130°56′57″E / 12.72222°S 130.94917°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 232 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 29 October 1997 (locality)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0822 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Goyder | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[3] [4] | ||||||||||||||
Southport is an outer rural locality in Darwin. It is based on the site of the abandoned Town of Southport,[5] a thriving river port during the Pine Creek gold rush of the 1870s. It is located at the junction of the Blackmore and Darwin Rivers.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "South Port (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ Palmer, Michael James (29 October 1997). "Place Names Act NAMING OF PUBLIC PLACE" (PDF). The Northern Territory Government Gazette. Northern Territory Government. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Southport". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. February 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Southport (Locality) Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
