Manton Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Manton Dam | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 12°49′26.79″S 131°09′24.10″E / 12.8241083°S 131.1566944°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 89 ( 2016 census) [1] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs [2] [3] |
Manton is an outer rural locality of Darwin. The name is derived from Manton Dam on the Manton River, named by Government Resident B. T. Finniss for his second-in-command James Thomas Manton. [4]