Port Darwin, a magnificent landlocked deep-water harbour of the Northern Territory of South Australia. Palmerston, the chief town and port on its shores, is the terminus of the overland telegraph, 1973 miles from Adelaide, and of the cable to Java, and the starting-point of a short railway (146 miles); pop. 800.
Port Darwin,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 330
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