The Gardens, Northern Territory
- The Gardens, Northern Territory
Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = The Gardens
city = Darwin
state = nt
caption = The Gardens
lga = City of Darwin
postcode = 0820
est = 1878
pop = 877 (2006) |pop_footnotes=[Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC71131|name=The Gardens (State Suburb)|quick=on|accessdate=2008-02-28] ]
area = 1.8
propval =
stategov = Port Darwin
fedgov = Solomon
near-nw = "Timor Sea"
near-n = Fannie Bay
near-ne = Parap
near-w = "Timor Sea"
near-e = Stuart Park
near-sw = Larrakeyah
near-s = Larrakeyah
near-se = Darwin
dist1 = 2.2
location1= Darwin
The Gardens is an inner suburb of the city Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
History
This suburban name is derived from the Botanic Gardens which began with the appointment of Maurice Holtze in 1878 and has grown to have one of the largest known collections of palms. Holtze used the Gardens area to investigate the possibility of growing sugar cane and cotton in the Territory.
A small residential area adjacent to the Botanical Gardens was called Palmerston Gardens in 1968, but to avoid confusion with the ‘new’ Palmerston, the Palmerston appellation was discarded in 1984 when the suburb was officially named.
References
External links
*http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#t
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