Middle Point, Northern Territory

Middle Point is an administrative locality in the Northern Territory of Australia.

This locality derives its name from the ridge of fertile land sticking into the edge of the coastal plains of the Adelaide River.

Some features of this locality are

1. a former CSIRO Research Station,
2. a school (the Middle Point School)http://web.ntschools.net/w/tegs/Pages/Middle-Point.aspx,
3. a Department of Defence Transmitting Station http://www.defence.gov.au/id/_Master/docs/NCRP/NT/0106HumptyDooTransmittingStationNT.pdf,
4. assorted farms,
5. Harrison Dam http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?metadata_id=2DBCB771211F06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE&type=html,
6. Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve
7. and was the home of the failed Humpty Doo Rice Project http://www.ricetrail.com.au/.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Middle Point had 58 people living within its boundaries.

Middle Point is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Goyder and the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.

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• Placenames