Victoria River, Northern Territory
{{about|the locality in the Northern Territory of Australia|the associated river|Victoria River (Northern Territory)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date= January 2020}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = suburb
| name = Victoria River
| state = nt
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| coordinates = {{coord| 16.6388|S| 131.413|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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| pop = 152
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}
| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2016 AUS|id = SSC70273 |name = Victoria River (State Suburb)|quick = on | access-date=13 January 2020}}
| established = 4 April 2007
| elevation = 89
| elevation_footnotes = (weather station)
| area = 27278
| area_footnotes ={{cite web|title= Victoria River|url= https://www.australias.guide/nt/location/victoria-river/ |publisher= Australias Guide Pty Ltd.|access-date=25 January 2020}}
| timezone = ACST
| utc = +9:30
| dist1 = 450
| dir1 = S
| location1 = Darwin
| dist2 = 240
| dir2 = S
| location2 = Katherine
| lga = Victoria Daly Region
| region =
| stategov = Gwoja{{cite web|title= Division of Stuart |url= https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles/division-of-stuart|publisher=Northern Territory Electoral Commission|access-date=6 March 2020}}
| fedgov = Lingiari{{cite web|title=Federal electoral division of Lingiari|url=https://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/nt/lingiari.html|publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=25 January 2020}}
| maxtemp = 34.6
| mintemp = 19.6
| rainfall = 647.7
| near-n = Gregory
Delamere
Sturt Plateau
| near-ne = Sturt Plateau
| near-e = Sturt Plateau
Birdum
Tanami East
| near-se = Tanami East
| near-s = Tanami East
Gurindji
| near-sw = Gurindji
| near-w = Gregory
| near-nw = Gregory
| footnotes = Locations
Adjoining localities{{cite web |title=Victoria River|url= http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/imfPublic/imf.jsp?site=nt_atlas&qhlt=true&qsel=true&qbuf=0.4&qry=PLACE_ID=22333&qlyr=113 |website=NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020}}{{cite web |title= Localities within Victoria-Daly Shire (sic) (map) |url= https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/404785/Victoria-daly_A3map_000.pdf |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020|date= 2 April 2007 }}{{efn|The locality of Victoria River fully surrounds the locality of Yarralin and the community of Pigeon Hole and the town of Top Springs.}}
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Victoria River is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about {{convert|450|km}} south of the territory capital of Darwin and about {{convert|240|km}} south of the municipal seat in Katherine.
The locality consists of the following land (from west to east) – the Humbert River pastoral lease, land described as NT Portion 1568, the Wambardi Aboriginal Land Trust, the Victoria River Downs pastoral lease, the Camfield pastoral lease, the Montejinni West pastoral lease, the Killarney pastoral lease, the Montejinni East pastoral lease, the Dungowan pastoral lease and the Birrimba pastoral lease. The locality fully surrounds the locality of Yarralin and the community of Pigeon Hole and the town of Top Springs. It has an area of {{convert|27278|km2}}.{{cite web |title=Localities within Victoria River sub-region (CP 5096) |url= http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/hpa-services/surveyplans?planname=CP/5096 |website= NT Place Names Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf|title=Northern Territory Pastoral Properties |year=2003|access-date=25 January 2020|publisher=Northern Territory Government| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409202959/http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf|archive-date=9 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the river of the same name which flows through the locality from the south to the north and which was named in 1839 by Captains Wickham and Stokes of HMS Beagle after Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Buchanan Highway passes through the locality from the Stuart Highway in the east to the Victoria Highway in the north-west. The Buntine Highway passes through the locality from the south to the north and meets the Buchanan Highway at Top Springs.
Victoria River includes the following sites that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register: the Bullock Creek Fossil Site, Jasper Gorge and the Murranji Track including the following five sites associated with the track and which have been separately registered - Murranji Track, Jump-Up Cairn, Murranji Track, No. 12 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 13 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 14 (Pussycat) Bore Dipyard and Murranji Track, Surveyor Well's Cairn.{{cite web |title=Bullock Creek Fossil Site |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:19 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 August 1996}}{{cite web |title=Jasper Gorge |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:276 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=25 October 2003}}{{cite web |title=Murranji Track |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:46 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}{{cite web |title= Murranji Track, Jump-Up Cairn |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:251 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}{{cite web |title= Murranji Track, No. 12 Bore |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:248 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}{{cite web |title= Murranji Track, No. 13 Bore |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:250|website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}{{cite web |title= Murranji Track, No. 14 (Pussycat) Bore Dipyard |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:252 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}{{cite web |title= Murranji Track, Surveyor Well's Cairn |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/heritageregister/f?p=103:302:::NO::P302_SITE_ID:253 |website=Heritage Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=25 January 2020 |date=3 July 1998}}
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Victoria River had 152 people living within its boundaries.
Victoria River is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region.
Climate
{{Weather box|location = Victoria River Downs, elevation {{convert|89|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1965–present)
|metric first = Y
|single line = Y
|width= auto
|collapsed = Y
|Jan record high C = 44.4
|Feb record high C = 43.9
|Mar record high C = 43.2
|Apr record high C = 40.9
|May record high C = 38.3
|Jun record high C = 36.9
|Jul record high C = 37.7
|Aug record high C = 39.2
|Sep record high C = 41.4
|Oct record high C = 44.9
|Nov record high C = 45.4
|Dec record high C = 44.9
|Jan record low C = 15.9
|Feb record low C = 17.0
|Mar record low C = 12.7
|Apr record low C = 9.3
|May record low C = 4.0
|Jun record low C = 2.2
|Jul record low C = 1.3
|Aug record low C = 2.7
|Sep record low C = 5.5
|Oct record low C = 10.5
|Nov record low C = 14.2
|Dec record low C = 15.1
|Jan high C = 36.0
|Feb high C = 35.3
|Mar high C = 35.4
|Apr high C = 34.9
|May high C = 32.0
|Jun high C = 29.5
|Jul high C = 29.8
|Aug high C = 31.9
|Sep high C = 36.1
|Oct high C = 37.9
|Nov high C = 38.6
|Dec high C = 37.4
|Jan low C = 24.8
|Feb low C = 24.5
|Mar low C = 23.2
|Apr low C = 19.9
|May low C = 15.3
|Jun low C = 11.8
|Jul low C = 11.0
|Aug low C = 12.4
|Sep low C = 18.4
|Oct low C = 22.3
|Nov low C = 24.6
|Dec low C = 25.3
|rain colour = green
|Jan rain mm = 204.6
|Feb rain mm = 230.1
|Mar rain mm = 113
|Apr rain mm = 28.0
|May rain mm = 4.9
|Jun rain mm = 3.8
|Jul rain mm = 1.7
|Aug rain mm = 0.1
|Sep rain mm = 4.7
|Oct rain mm = 26.3
|Nov rain mm = 58.7
|Dec rain mm = 143.2
|unit rain days = 1.0 mm
|Jan rain days = 12
|Feb rain days = 12
|Mar rain days = 8.0
|Apr rain days = 2.0
|May rain days = 0.7
|Jun rain days = 0.3
|Jul rain days = 0.2
|Aug rain days = 0.1
|Sep rain days = 0.6
|Oct rain days = 2.9
|Nov rain days = 5.9
|Dec rain days = 10.6
|source 1 = Australian Bureau of Meteorology{{cite web
| url = http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/cvg/av?p_stn_num=014825&p_prim_element_index=0&p_comp_element_index=0&redraw=null&p_display_type=full_statistics_table&normals_years=1991-2020&tablesizebutt=normal
| title = Climate statistics for Australian locations: VICTORIA RIVER DOWNS
| date = 8 April 2024}}
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