Nemarluk Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 14°02′39″S 130°08′28″E / 14.0442°S 130.1412°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 131 ( 2016 census) [2] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 4 April 2007 [1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 0822 [3] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST ( UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location | 210 km (130 mi) SW of Darwin City | ||||||||||||||
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Territory electorate(s) | Daly [6] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Lingiari [7] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Locations
[3] Adjoining localities [4] |
Nemarluk is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 210 kilometres (130 mi) south-west of the territorial capital of Darwin. [1] [3]
It consists of land bounded in part by the Daly River and the Timor Sea in the north and north-west respectively, in part by the Fitzmaurice River in the south, and in part again by the Daly River in the east. [4]
Nemarluk is named in commemoration of Nemarluk (circa 1911 -1940), an aboriginal man notable as an “Indigenous resistance fighter”, a murderer and as a prisoner. [9] The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. [1]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Nemarluk had 131 people living within its boundaries. [2]
Nemarluk is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and the local government areas of the Victoria Daly Region and the West Daly Region. [7] [1] [4] [6] [5]