Casuarina, Northern Territory
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Casuarina is one of the northern suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory
, Australia
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It is home to the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory
, called Casuarina Square
. Casuarina is a small suburb taking in the large shopping and business area and the adjoining emergency service facilities/ buildings.
trees that grow along the nearby Casuarina Beach. Casuarina was the name used in the early 1960s for the proposed main business area in the northern suburbs.
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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It is home to the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
, called Casuarina Square
Casuarina Square
Casuarina Square, the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory, is located in Casuarina in Darwin's northern suburbs. The shopping centre is built to the building code for Tropical Cyclones, due to cyclones that sweep through the area such as Cyclone Tracy in 1974.Casuarina Square was...
. Casuarina is a small suburb taking in the large shopping and business area and the adjoining emergency service facilities/ buildings.
History
Casuarina derives its suburban name from the casuarinaCasuarina
Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, southeast Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was once treated as the sole genus in the family, but has been split into three genera .They are evergreen shrubs and trees growing to 35 m tall...
trees that grow along the nearby Casuarina Beach. Casuarina was the name used in the early 1960s for the proposed main business area in the northern suburbs.
Transport
Casuarina is a base for one of three interchanges for the Darwin bus service which is located at Casuarina Square.External links
- http://www.brmanagement.com.au/suburbsmap.html
- http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#t