Wickham, Northern Territory

Wickham Northern Territory
Wickham
Coordinates	12°32′56″S 130°54′38″E[1]
Population	268 (2016 census)[2]
Established	21 April 2004[3]
Postcode(s)	0822[4]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
Location	13 km (8 mi) SE of Darwin
LGA(s)	Litchfield Municipality[1]
Territory electorate(s)	Daly[5]
Federal division(s)	Lingiari[6]
Mean max temp[7] Mean min temp[7] Annual rainfall[7] 32.1 °C 90 °F 23.2 °C 74 °F 1,725.1 mm 67.9 in
Suburbs around Wickham: Darwin Harbour Darwin Harbour East Arm Elrundie Archer Mitchell Darwin Harbour Channel Island Cox Peninsula Wickham Weddell Cox Peninsula Blackmore Weddell Weddell
Footnotes	Locations[4] Adjoining localities[8][9]

Wickham is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south-east of the territory capital of Darwin City and which overlooks Darwin Harbour.^[1][4]

Wickham is located on land and adjoining waters, East Arm to the north and Middle Arm to the south-west. The locality was named after Wickham Point, which itself is named after John Clements Wickham, the British naval officer who named Darwin Harbour. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 21 April 2004.^[3][1][10]

Wickham includes the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas Plant and the Weddell Power Station as well as the sites of the former Channel Island Leprosarium, a heritage listed place, and the former Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre.^{[8][11][12][13][14]} Children of Aboriginal people at the leprosarium were taken to the Garden Point Mission from the 1930s to the 1960s.^[15]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wickham had 268 people living within its boundaries.^[2]

Wickham is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.^[6][5][9]

References

1. "Place Names Register Extract for Wickham (locality)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wickham (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
3. Burns, Christopher. B. (21 April 2004). "Place Names Act, Naming of Public Place ("East Arm localities")" (PDF). The Northern Territory Government Gazette. Northern Territory Government. p. 7. Retrieved 8 June 2019. ...the localities shown by thick black lines on the plans appearing in the Schedule be named East Arm, Hidden Valley, East Arm, East Arm, East Arm, Wickham and Channel Island, as indicated on those plans.
4. "Wickham Postcode". postcode-finders.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
5. "Division of Daly". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
6. "Federal electoral division of Lingiari". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics DARWIN AIRPORT (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
8. "Wickham". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
9. "Litchfield Municipality Localities (map)" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 29 October 1997. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
10. "Place Names Register Extract for Wickham Point". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
11. "Darwin LNG Plant". ConocoPhillips Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
12. "Channel Island Leprosarium and Reefs". Heritage Register. Northern Territory Government. 25 February 1997. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
13. "Weddell Power Station". Territory Generation. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
14. Gregory, Katherine (4 May 2016). "NT Chief Minister disappointed with plan to close Darwin's Wickham Point Detention Centre". Australian Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
15. "Garden Point Mission (1941-1969)". Find & Connect. Retrieved 19 November 2021.