Palmerston County

Map of Palmerston County in 1886, showing the hundreds.

Palmerston County is one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. It contains the city of Darwin. It was proclaimed in the 1860s, and divided into hundreds. It is bounded by Disraeli County to the east, Roseberry County to the south-east, and Malmesbury County to the south. The Adelaide River is the border to the north-east.

Hundreds

Counties¹ of Australian capital cities

Cumberland (Sydney) Bourke (Melbourne) Stanley (Brisbane) Adelaide (Adelaide) Perth² (Perth) Buckingham³ (Hobart) Murray (Canberra⁴) Palmerston (Darwin)

¹Lands administrative divisions; no political function. ²Former. ³Renamed Land District. ⁴Land area pre-1909, no longer in Murray.

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