Middle Point, Northern Territory

Middle Point Darwin, Northern Territory
Middle Point Antenna Farm or Department of Defence Transmitting Station
LGA(s)	Litchfield Municipality

Middle Point is an administrative locality in the Northern Territory of Australia.

This locality derives its name from the ridge of fertile land sticking into the edge of the coastal plains of the Adelaide River.

Some features of this locality are
a CSIRO Research Station,
a school (the Middle Point School),
a Department of Defence Transmitting Station,
assorted farms,
Harrison Dam,
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve
and was the home of the failed Humpty Doo Rice Project.

References

Map of Middle Point, NT

External links

Placenames

Suburbs and towns of the Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory

Outer Darwin	Bees Creek Coolalinga Freds Pass Girraween Holtze Howard Springs Humpty Doo Knuckey Lagoon McMinns Lagoon Noonamah Virginia Mickett Creek

Western Rural	Berry Springs Blackmore Channel Island Darwin River Fly Creek Livingstone Southport Tumbling Waters Weddell Wickham

Eastern Rural	Acacia Hills Black Jungle Gunn Point Herbert Hughes Lambells Lagoon Lloyd Creek Manton Middle Point Murrumujuk Daly Glyde Point Koolpinyah Shoal Bay Wak Wak

Coordinates: 12°36′09.64″S 131°18′08.58″E / 12.6026778°S 131.3023833°E / -12.6026778; 131.3023833

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