Sandover Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 21°58′57″S 135°30′36″E / 21.9824°S 135.51°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 634 ( 2016 census) [2] | ||||||||||||||
• Density | 0.03358/km2 (0.08697/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Established | 4 April 2007 [1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 0872 [3] | ||||||||||||||
Area | 18,880 km2 (7,289.6 sq mi) [4] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST ( UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location | 1,133 km (704 mi) S of Darwin City | ||||||||||||||
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Territory electorate(s) | Barkly [6] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Lingiari [7] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Locations
[3] Adjoining localities [9] [10] [5] [a] |
Sandover is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 1,133 kilometres (704 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin. [1] [3]
The locality’s name is derived from the Sandover River whose course passes through the locality and which is considered to be named in 1878 after William Sandover, a South Australian politician. It fully surrounds the community of Ampilatwatja, which lies within the Aboriginal homelands area of Utopia, Northern Territory. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. [9] [1]
The Sandover Highway passes through the locality from the south-west to the north-east. [9]
Sandover includes the following places that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register – the Eldo Rocket Shelters Ooratippra and the Old MacDonald Downs Homestead. [11] [12]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sandover had 634 people living within its boundaries, of whom 45.2% were male, 54.8% were female and 91.6% (577) identified as “ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.” [2]
Sandover is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government areas of the Barkly Region and the Central Desert Region. [7] [6] [10]