Hugh, Northern Territory
Suburb of MacDonnell Region, the Northern Territory, Australia
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Hugh is a locality in the Northern Territory, Australia, located about 1,328 kilometres (825 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1][2]
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  Hugh | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 24°20′S 133°37′E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Northern Territory | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 4 April 2007[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 9,568 km2 (3,694 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 865 (2016 census)[6] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.09041/km2 (0.23415/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 0872[2] | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 28.9 °C (84.0 °F)[7] | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 13.3 °C (55.9 °F)[7] | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 282.8 mm (11.13 in)[7] | ||||||||||||
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The locality consists of the following land from north to south – the Owen Springs, the Orange Creek and the Maryvale pastoral leases.[10][8][9]
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the river which flows through the locality and which was named as a creek by John McDouall Stuart in 1860 after a Hugh Chambers. It fully surrounds the community of Titjikala. As of 2020, it has an area of 9,568 square kilometres (3,694 sq mi).[1][5]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Hugh had 865 people living within its boundaries of which 687 (78.9%) identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”[6]
Hugh is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.[4][3][8]
