Acacia Hills, Northern Territory
| Acacia Hills Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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 Acacia Hills | |||||||||||||||
  Acacia Hills Location in Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°47′44″S 131°07′23″E / 12.79556°S 131.12306°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 694 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0822 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 60.2 km (37 mi) from Darwin | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Goyder | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Solomon | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
Acacia Hills is an outer rural locality of Darwin. It is 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of the Darwin CBD.
The local government area that it is a part of is the Litchfield Municipality. The suburb is mostly a rural area, just north of Adelaide River. The Stuart Highway runs through Acacia Hills[4] and the suburb's name comes from the acacia shrub that is endemic to the area.
The area was the site of the 1999 Acacia Hills Shootout, where bushman Rodney Ansell ambushed several policemen at a roadblock. Ansell killed one policeman but was eventually shot himself in the gun battle that followed.[5]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Acacia Hills (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Acacia Hills". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ^ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ^ Ashleigh Raper (12 January 2011). "Truck rollover blocks highway". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
- ^ "25 Most Insane Shootouts in History". List25. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
