Hundred of Douglas
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Location | 606 km (377 mi) from Darwin |
The Hundred of Douglas was a
It is located 606 km south of Darwin, at latitude 14° 38' S and longitude: 134° 30' E. It is on the Roper River in the bounded rural locality of Wilton, Northern Territory. The main towns of the Hundred are
History
The
The first European to the Hundred was Ludwig Leichhardt who crossed the Roper River at the Roper Bar in 1845, and in 1855 Augustus Charles Gregory passed to the south of the Hundred on his route to Gladstone, Queensland.
This Hundred was one of six in the
Although today the area is predominantly covered by the
In the 1890s the area was a favourite stop over for
In 1902 Jeannie Gunn moved to nearby Elsey Station and wrote of her experience in the area, in the novel We of the Never Never.[7]
The prosperous port, however, never eventuated and the Hundred lapsed with the passage in 1976 and subsequent assent of the Crown Lands Ordinace 1976 (No 1 of 1977) and the Crown Lands (Validation of Proclamations) Ordinance 1976 (No 2 of 1977).
References
- ^ a b c Hundred of Douglas Place Names Register Extract].
- (1925) vol. 3, pages = 61–102.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- ^ "Kriol".
- ^ Roper Bar, The Sydney Morning Herald. February 8, 2004.
- ^ Roper Bar, The Sydney Morning Herald. February 8, 2004.
- ^ Rutledge, Martha (2000). "Gunn, Jeannie (1870–1961)". Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 13 March 2007.