Australia
Northern Territory
East Arnhem Region

Nhulunbuy

Nhulunbuy, also formerly known as Gove, is a town and locality in the far north of the Northern Territory of Australia. Founded on the in north-east when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established in the late 1960s, the town's economy largely revolved around its alumina refinery until it closed in May 2014.
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  • Type: Town with 3,270 residents
  • Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
  • Also known as: “Gove”, “Gove, Northern Territory”, “Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory”, “Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia”, “Nhulunby”, and “Nullumbuy”

Nhulunbuy

Latitude
-12.18044° or 12° 10′ 50″ south
Longitude
136.77599° or 136° 46′ 34″ east
Population
3,270
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
IATA airport code
GOV
United Nations Location Codes
AU GOV and AU NHU
Open location code
5QVRRQ9G+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 594445489
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2064735
Wiki­data ID
Q17996
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Nhulunbuy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهولونباي”
  • Asturian: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Basque: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Catalan: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Cebuano: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Chinese: “紐倫拜”
  • Chinese: “纽伦拜”
  • Dutch: “Nhulunbuy”
  • French: “Nhulunbuy”
  • German: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Hebrew: “נולונביי”
  • Indonesian: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Irish: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Italian: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Japanese: “ヌーランビル”
  • Japanese: “ヌルンバイ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Korean: “눌런바이”
  • Lithuanian: “Nalunbajus”
  • Malagasy: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Malayalam: “നുലുൻബുയ്”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nhulunbuy”
  • Persian: “نهولونبوی”
  • Polish: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Portuguese: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Spanish: “Nhulunbuy”
  • Swedish: “Nhulunbuy”
  • “Nhulunbuy”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nhulunbuy”. Photo: Glen Dillon, CC BY 3.0.