Wickham, Northern Territory

Wickham is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south-east of the territory capital of Darwin City and which overlooks Darwin Harbour.

[3][1][10] 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.

[8][11][12][13][14] Children of Aboriginal people at the leprosarium were taken to the Garden Point Mission from the 1930s to the 1960s.

[15] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wickham had 268 people living within its boundaries.

[2] Wickham is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.