Place Names Register Extract
Holtze
Extract date: 24/11/2024
| Name |
Holtze |
| Type Designation |
Locality |
| Place Id |
2044 |
| Place Type |
Administrative Area |
| Status |
Registered |
| Date Registered |
29 October 1997 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) |
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Latitude:
-12° 27' S
(Decimal degrees -12.4554) |
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Longitude:
131° 00' E
(Decimal degrees 131.0037) |
| Locality / Suburb |
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(None Found) |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Litchfield Council |
| History/Origin |
This new locality to the north of Palmerston, including the Armys Robertson Barracks, commemorates Maurice William Holtze (1840-1923) who arrived in the Territory in 1878 as Government Gardener and set up the Experimental Gardens which later became Darwin's Botanic Gardens. Holtze held land around from 1883 to 1917 and was engaged in an early agricultural enterprise at Jungle and Palm Creeks. This Jungle was known as Holtze Jungle, but in post war years the area was secured as a Forestry Reserve known as Holmes Jungle after Felix Holmes, a butcher, who in 1917 owned and raised cattle in the Jungle. The name of MW Holtze's son Valdemar (known as Wallaby Holtze) is perpetuated in a road on the south boundary of the locality.
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Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 29/10/1997 |
NTG43 |
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| 29/07/2016 |
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Alteration of Locality Boundary |
| 10/08/2016 |
NTG G32 |
Alteration of Locality boundary notified in Gazette |
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