| Manton Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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 Manton Dam | |||||||||||||||
  Manton | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°49′26.79″S 131°09′24.10″E / 12.8241083°S 131.1566944°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 89 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
Manton is an outer rural locality of Darwin. The name is derived from Manton Dam on the Manton River, named by Government Resident B. T. Finniss for his second-in-command James Thomas Manton.[4]
References
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Manton (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Manton". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ "The Origin of Suburbs, Localities, Towns and Hundreds in the Greater Darwin area". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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