History

Palmerston

Palmerston was the name chosen in 1864 for the capital of the Northern Territory by the South Australian Government in recognition of Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the UK.

After several site changes the capital was renamed Darwin in 1911. In 1980 the decision was made to go ahead with a new city in the Darwin area and for the third time the name Palmerston was chosen.

The WWII Camp 16 Mile was a WWII military base located along the Stuart Highway. It now consists of a series of cement foundations that mark various buildings and constructions, gun pits (round dirt pits), dirt trenches, short fortifications built of local stone, two bottle dumps and latrines built of cement slabs ('Flaming Furies').