Lajamanu
Lajamanu, formerly known as Hooker Creek Native Settlement or just Hooker Creek, is a small town of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located around 560 km from Katherine and approximately 890 km from Darwin.
- Type: Village with 653 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as: “Hooker Creek”, “Lajamanu, Northern Territory”, and “Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia”
Lajamanu
- Categories: town, Indigenous Australian community, and locality
- Location: Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.33578° or 18° 20′ 9″ south
Longitude
130.63592° or 130° 38′ 9″ east
Population
653
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
IATA airport code
HOK
Open location code
5QHGMJ7P+M9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Lajamanu” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lajamanu”
- Basque: “Lajamanu (Iparraldeko Lurraldea)”
- Basque: “Lajamanu”
- Catalan: “Lajamanu”
- Chinese: “拉加馬努”
- Dutch: “Lajamanu”
- French: “Lajamanu”
- German: “Lajamanu”
- Malayalam: “ലജാമനു, നോർത്തേൺ ടെറിട്ടറി”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lajamanu”
- Persian: “لاجمانو، قلمرو شمالی”
- Persian: “لاجمانو”
- Polish: “Lajamanu”
- Spanish: “Lajamanu”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Lul-tju and Gurindji.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Lajamanu Police Station and Hooker Creek Airport.
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Worth a closer look: Darwin and Top End.
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