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The City of Palmerston N T.
The Town of Palmerston in 1999 was declared a City in 2000 but was not put on most maps at all here in Australia let alone being known as a " City " that was until after I had asked why not.
Even as to the fact why the name of PALMERSTON was not also on most Australian maps and the ones it where on was showing Palmerston written in Silhuette and yet other such small places such as the hamlet of Humpty Doo are writen in bold letters.....This is down right odd!.
Now for the first time the correct map now showing the geographical placement of The City of Palmerston Northern Territory that was given to me by Mr. Greg Heron Manager, Land Information Centre N T Dept of Infrastructure, Planning & Environment for the Northern Territory on 22 Jan 2002 I would now say,
Thank You.
The City of Palmerston Internet Gateway is coming soon this along with some new maps as well as photographs of the City of Palmerston in the Northern Territory in the true Australian Spirit.
It also has to be noted here too that I was the first persons in the Northern Territory to have put the Town and then The City of Palmerston on the map as well as on the internet for the first time ever.
As not even the then Palmerston Town council had a web site up at that time let alone the now " City of Palmerston in 2000 ".
Web site: https://www.angelfire.com/oz/whereweare/index.html
The name of PALMERSTON was originally given to the early settlement of Darwin in 1855 to honour the then Prime Minister of Britain, Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) The name of Palmerston finally disappeared and years later the name Darwin was adopted as the official name of the capital.
The now declared City of Palmerston as of 2000 used to be once called " The satellite City of the North " and where The City of Darwin now stands it used to be called Palmerston before it was renamed!.
The Northern Territory attained self government on 1 July 1978 and adopted the flag shown above on that day.
The flag was designed by Robert Ingpen, a Victorian illustrator, and incorporates the Territorian colours of black and ochre and a stylised Sturt's Desert Rose, its floral emblem. The southern cross appears in the black pale at the hoist. Note that the Southern Cross is of the Victorian form, with the number of points on the stars ranging from five to eight.
The flag of the Northern Territory was the first official Australian flag to not contain the Union Flag of the United Kingdom (Union Jack). Its style of dividing the field "per pale" with a one-third/two-thirds split is unique and has created an Australian vexillogical style called the "Australian pale".
But as to why this was not done in the first place no one could tell me and I have never found out to this day.
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3 Warner Place
Palmerston City.
From The Lands Dept some Water Tower Position Information:
Latitude _ 12- 28 -50.7 South ..... Longitude _130 - 59 - 3.7 East
715,665 East
8619,475 North
Locator: PH57FD
Grid Square: PH57LM
Latitude _ 12- 28 -27 South ..... Longitude _130 - 59 - 27 East
Peter D Giles, VK8PDG Amateur Radio Region: Zone 29, VK8 (for QSL).
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I would now like to thank Mr. Greg Heron Manager, Land Information Centre N T Dept of Infrastructure, Planning & Environment for the Northern Territory and indeed The Government of Northern Territory for this map that they have given to me Peter D Giles showing the now correct placement of The City of Palmerston in The Northern Territory of Australia.
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This flag also inspired the subsequent design of the Australian Capital Territory flag The "Australian pale" has now firmly established itself as an indigenous Australian vexillogical style, and in recognition of its success, is used in the proposed flags for all the states.
