Burt Plain is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 1,249 kilometres (776 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1][3]
| Burt Plain Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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  Burt Plain | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 23°23′21″S 133°28′26″E / 23.3893°S 133.474°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 250 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.0256/km2 (0.0662/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 4 April 2007[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0872 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 9,777 km2 (3,774.9 sq mi)[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 1,249 km (776 mi) S of Darwin City[3] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | MacDonnell Region[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Namatjira[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[8][9] | ||||||||||||||
The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south):[10][9]
- The Amburla and Yambah pastoral leases
- The Hamilton Downs and Bond Springs pastoral leases, and
- part of the West MacDonnell National Park at its eastern end.
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the natural feature of the same name which itself was named in 1871 after A.G. Burt, a member of the team building the Overland Telegraph Line.[1] As of 2020, it has an area of 9,777 square kilometres (3,775 sq mi).[4]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Burt Plain had 250 people living within its boundaries of which 215 (85%) identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”[2]
Burt Plain is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.[6][5][8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Place Names Register Extract for Burt Plain". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Burt Plain (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Burt Plain Postcode". postcode-finders.com.au. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Burt Plain". Australia’s Guide Pty Ltd. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Division of Namatjira". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Lingiari". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Localities within McDonnell Shire (sic) (map)" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Localities within the Alice Springs Sub-region (CP5075)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 29 November 2006. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Northern Territory Pastoral Districts". Northern Territory Government. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
