Darwin Australia
Brinkin

Suburbs of Darwin Australia
Brinkin is a small suburb with some highly prized real estate perched on cliffs overlooking Casuarina Beach.

Brinkin houses can be seen behind a beach
bike track information shelter.

At the very end of Trower Road, Brinkin is a frizzbee throw from the beach, next door to Charles Darwin University and close to both Casuarina Shops and Darwin Hospital.

Brinkin was named after an Aboriginal tribe who lived in the area south of the Daly River mouth.

Brinkin Street Names	Origin of Street Name
Airlie Circuit	Named after the steamer "Airlie" which operated in the Northern Territory during the 1890's and early 1900's.
Claymore Circuit	The ship "Claymore" under Captain Dalziel which was chartered by the Government's Resident in 1872 to take a survey party to the Roper River.
Dripstone Road	Nearby Dripstone Caves at casuarina were named on G W Goyder's early plans of Port Darwin in 1869
Edinburgh Crescent	The "Edinburgh" was one of three ships which left England in August 1871 to lay cables between Java and Port Darwin.
Ellengowan Drive	The "Ellengowan" was a steamer that was wrecked in the Daly River the later recovered and used to carry mail to the Gulf ports of the Northern Territory
Hibernia Crescent	Another of the three cable laying ships which brought the Telegraph cables to Darwin
Kuru Court	The patrol vessel "Kuru" which served through WW11 and afterwards in Darwin.
Lakeside Drive	Named in anticipation of an artificial lake being built on nearby land. The proposal was abandoned after cyclone Tracy.
Omeo Street	The steamer "omeo" which served in Territory waters in the 1870's and brought many of the miners during the Pine Creek gold rush.
Trower Road	Horace Trower who was appointed Chief Lands Officer and Director of Lands for the Northern Territory during 1917-21

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