__NOTOC__ Baines is a locality in the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

located in the territory's west adjoining the border with the state of

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about south of the territory capital of Darwin and about south-west of the municipal seat in

Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Ch ...

. The locality is bounded by the Western Australian border to the west, the limits of Northern Territory waters to the north and in part to the east by the Victoria River. It consists of the following land (from north to south): #Land described as NT Portion 5774 and the Legune pastoral lease #Land described as NT Portion 1584 and the Spirit Hills and Bullo River pastoral leases #The

Keep River National Park Keep River National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 418 km southwest of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and 468 km west of Katherine, Northern Territory, Katherine. The nearest town is Kununurra, Western Australia, Ku ...

and the

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and

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pastoral leases, and #The Rosewood and Waterloo pastoral leases and the Nagurungguru Aboriginal Lands Trust. As of 2020, it has an area of . The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from "the Baines River, a tributary of the Victoria River, which was named during A C Gregory's North Australian Expedition of 1855-56 after

Thomas Baines (John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 – 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Life and work Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 27 November 1820, Baines was apprenticed to a coach ...

, artist of the expedition." The

2016 Australian census The 2016 Australian census was the 17th Census in Australia, national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was count ...

which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Baines had a population of 249 people of which 157 (63.1%) identified as being "

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...

." Baines is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and the local government area of the

Victoria Daly Region The Victoria Daly Regional Council is a Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory, local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The shire covers an area of and had a population of 3,138 in June 2018. History In October ...

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{{Localities and communities of the Victoria Daly Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory Victoria Daly Region