Holtze, Northern Territory
Holtze is a locality in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is 22 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its local government area is the Municipality of Litchfield. The locality is mostly a rural area, just north of Palmerston. It was named for Maurice William Holtze (1840–1923), the botanist who established Darwin's Botanical Gardens, and his son Nicholas, who succeeded him as curator.
| Holtze Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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Holtze | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12.461°S 130.984°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,810 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 4 April 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0829 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Litchfield Municipality | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Nelson | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Solomon | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining suburbs | ||||||||||||||
In September 2010, the Northern Territory Government announced that new a Darwin’s prison precinct, Doug Owston Correctional Centre, would be built in Holtze, about four kilometres north of Howard Springs Road. In July 2012, a road in Holtze was registered and named after prison officer Reginald Anthony Willard (1943–1997), who worked at the correctional centre.
In 2011, the Northern Territory Government identified a greenfield site in Holtze near the intersection of Temple Terrace and the Stuart Highway as the location for the Palmerston Regional Hospital. The hospital opened in 2018.