Hughes, Northern Territory
| Hughes Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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  Hughes | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°41′12″S 131°05′58″E / 12.6868°S 131.0995°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 70 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Goyder[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari[4] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[6][7] | ||||||||||||||
Hughes is an outer rural locality of Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the war-time airfield, the Hughes Airfield , which was named after W A Hughes who was the Director of Mines in the Northern Territory before the Second World War.[1]
Hughes Airfield was recently resurfaced by the Northern Territory Government and is sometimes used by water-bombing aircraft during bushfire season. [8]
References
- ^ a b "Search results for 'Hughes (Locality)'". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Hughes (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Division of Goyder". Northern Territory Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Profile of the electoral division of Lingiari (NT)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics MIDDLE POINT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Hughes". 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.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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