Rosebery, Northern Territory

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Rosebery
city = Rosebery
state = nt

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caption = Suburb of Rosebery
lga = City of Palmerston
postcode = 0832
est = 1990's
pop = 1,529
pop_footnotes=(2006) [cite news|url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ProductSelect?newproducttype=QuickStats&btnSelectProduct=View+QuickStats+%3E&collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC72046&geography=&method=&productlabel=&producttype=&topic=&navmapdisplayed=true&javascript=true&breadcrumb=LP&topholder=0&leftholder=0&currentaction=201&action=401&textversion=true|title=Northern Territory Regional Population|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=25/10/2007 2008|accessdate=2008-04-01]
area = 1.7
propval = $180,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/SuburbProfile.aspx?mode=buy&suburb=Rosebery&postcode=0832#mapanchor 2008 Rosebery Property Value] ]
stategov = Blain
fedgov = Solomon
near-nw = Woodroffe
near-n = Bakewell
near-ne = Johnston
near-w = Woodroffe
near-e = Zuccoli
near-sw = Woodroffe
near-s = Bellamack
near-se = Mitchell
dist1 = 26.1
location1= Darwin
dist2 = 3.1
location2= Palmerston

Rosebery is an outer southern suburb of Palmerston. It is 26km SE of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston.

This suburb is named after the Fifth Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, a then British statesman who visited South Australia in 1884. A decade later he became the Prime Minister of Britain.

It was during his overseas visit, that the South Australian Government decided to name additional Counties in the Top End. After the initial group of Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, the County of Rosebery was gazetted in 1885. Rosebery covered the area north of Pine Creek.

The Place Names Committee in conjunction with the Palmerston Development Authority decided to perpetuate the Rosebery name as the County of Rosebery fell into disuse and was cancelled on 7 January 1977. [ [http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#r NT Lands Group - NT Government - Australia ] ]

Rosebery is located on the periphery of Palmerston and is one of its newer residential suburbs. It has experienced a lot of growth in recent times.

References

External links

* http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#r
* [http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ProductSelect?newproducttype=QuickStats&btnSelectProduct=View+QuickStats+%3E&collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC72046&geography=&method=&productlabel=&producttype=&topic=&navmapdisplayed=true&javascript=true&breadcrumb=LP&topholder=0&leftholder=0&currentaction=201&action=401&textversion=true Australian Bureau of Statistics - Demographics of Rosebery, 2006]