Holtze, Northern Territory
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| Coordinates: 12°27′40″S 130°59′02″E / 12.461°S 130.984°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Northern Territory | ||||||||||||
| City | Darwin | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 4 April 2007[1] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 1,810 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 0829 | ||||||||||||
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Holtze is a locality in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is 22 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its local government area is the Municipality of Litchfield. The locality is mostly a rural area, just north of Palmerston. It was named for Maurice William Holtze (1840–1923), the botanist who established Darwin's Botanical Gardens, and his son Nicholas, who succeeded him as curator.[5]
Robertson Barracks, a major Australian Army base is located in the suburb, west of Thorngate Road.
In September 2010, the Northern Territory Government announced that a new prison precinct, Doug Owston Correctional Centre, would be built in Holtze, about four kilometres north of Howard Springs Road.[6] In July 2012, a road in Holtze was registered and named after prison officer Reginald Anthony Willard (1943–1997), who worked at the correctional centre.[7]
In 2011, the Northern Territory Government identified a greenfield site in Holtze near the intersection of Temple Terrace and the Stuart Highway as the location for the Palmerston Regional Hospital. The hospital opened in 2018.[8]
