Gladstone County
Gladstone County is one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia.
Gladstone County was one of the original three counties in the top end, and the only County not in the Darwin hinterland. The county was partly subdivided into parish or Hundreds.
The county was centered on the Roper River at a time when the Roper River seemed to offer a great economic possibility. The county covers the traditional lands of the Ngalakan, Mara, and Mangarayi peoples. Today towns in the County include Urapunga, Mataranka and Jilkminggan, Ngukurr and Elsey, Northern Territory.
Geographic features include Elsey and Limmen National Park.
Like the other Counties of the Northern Territory, Gladstone is named for a British Prime Minister.
See Also
County of Gladstone, Victoria Parish of Gladstone, Queensland
