Tumbling Waters
| Tumbling Waters Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  Tumbling Waters | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°45′56.04″S 130°57′22.86″E / 12.7655667°S 130.9563500°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 170 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1869 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0822 | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
| ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Goyder | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Solomon | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
Tumbling Waters is an outer rural location in Darwin. The name of the locality derived from the town which was named after the rapids "Tumbling Waters" where R C Burton discovered gold in 1869.[4]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tumbling Waters (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Tumbling Waters". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Litchfield Municipality Localities" (PDF). Place Names Committee. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ Tumbling Waters (Locality) Archived 23 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine