Livingstone, Northern Territory
| Livingstone Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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  Livingstone | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 12°40′58.45″S 131°04′54.80″E / 12.6829028°S 131.0818889°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 452 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 29 July 1998[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0822 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Daly | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
Livingstone is an outer rural locality near Darwin. The name "Livingstone" derived from the war-time airstrip which was named after John D Livingstone, Jnr.[5] On 4 April 1942, Livingstone was wounded during action over Darwin, but flew to the newly completed 34 mile airstrip where he crash landed, but died in the resultant inferno.[5] He was buried at "The Gardens Cemetery".[5] The 34 Mile strip was named Livingstone in his honour.[5] Livingstone has a rural recreation reserve managed by a community management committee and provides a Friday night 34 mile bar and bistro frequented by locals and visitors.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Place Names Register Extract for Livingstone". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Livingstone (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Livingstone". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d Livingstone Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
