Nhulunbuy
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Nhulunbuy (), also formerly known as Gove, is a town and locality in the far north of the Northern Territory of Australia. Founded on the Gove Peninsula in north-east Arnhem Land when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established in the late 1960s, the town's economy largely revolved around its alumina refinery until it closed in May 2014. The town is a private mining town residing on Aboriginal-owned land.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Nhulunbuy
- Australian place.state
- nt
- Australian place.local_map
- yes
- Australian place.lga
- Unincorporated area
- Australian place.postcode
- 0881, 0880
- Australian place.area
- 7.12
- Australian place.elevation
- 20
- Australian place.maxtemp
- 30.8
- Australian place.mintemp
- 23.3
- Australian place.rainfall
- 1305.3
- Australian place.stategov
- Mulka
- Australian place.fedgov
- Lingiari
- Australian place.dist1
- 1016
- Australian place.dir1
- E
- Australian place.location1
- Darwin
- Australian place.dist2
- 18
- Australian place.dir2
- NW
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Northern Territory
- Population
- 3267
- Area
- 7.12
- Elevation
- 48
- Image
- Gove Airport terminal main entrance.jpg
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- Nhulunbuy
- male population
- 1664
- female population
- 1574
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Nhulunbuy (), also formerly known as Gove, is a town and locality in the far north of the Northern Territory of Australia. Founded on the Gove Peninsula in north-east Arnhem Land when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established in the late 1960s, the town's economy largely revolved around its alumina refinery until it closed in May 2014. The town is a private mining town residing on Aboriginal-owned land.
Nhulun, named Mount Saunders by Matthew Flinders, is a flat-topped hill rising behind the town, which gets its name from this sacred site. In the , the locality of Nhulunbuy had a population of 3,350 people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nhulunbuy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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