Wickham, Northern Territory
Wickham is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin City and which overlooks Darwin Harbour.
Wickham is located on land and adjoining waters associated with a peninsula of land known as Wickham Point which is bounded in part by the following bodies of water in Darwin Harbour - the East arm to the north and by Middle Arm to the south-west. The locality was named after Wickham Point and which itself is named after John Clements Wickham, the British naval officer who named Darwin Harbour. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 21 April 2004.
Wickham includes the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas Plant and the Weddell Power Station as well as the sites of the former Channel Island Leprosarium, a heritage listed place, and the former Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre.
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wickham had 268 people living within its boundaries.
Wickham is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.
