__NOTOC__ Burt Plain 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 about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land (from west to east, then north to south): #The

Amburla Amburla Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. The property is situated approximately north of Hermannsburg and west of Alice Springs. Amburla occupies an area of . The most pr ...

and Yambah pastoral leases #The Hamilton Downs and Bond Springs pastoral leases, and #part of the

West MacDonnell National Park Tjoritja / West MacDonnell is a national park in the Northern Territory (Australia) due west of Alice Springs and 1234 km south of Darwin. It extends along the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs. The popular extended walk, the Larap ...

at its eastern end. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the natural feature of the same name which itself was named in 1871 after A.G. Burt, a member of the team building the

Overland Telegraph Line The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was an electrical telegraph system for sending messages the between Darwin, in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia, and Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Completed in 1872 (with a li ...

. As of 2020, it has an area of . 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 Burt Plain had 250 people living within its boundaries of which 215 (85%) identified as “

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 ...

.” Burt Plain is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the

MacDonnell Region The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018. Geography MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the sou ...

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