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Our beloved "CITY" Batchelor - with a population of 358, 98 kilometres south of Darwin, just off the Stuart Highway (Explorer's Way).

Batchelor is the town where you can find the Darwin Parachute Club, with it's friendly Instructors and the possibility to do Tandem Jumps.
The Darwin Parachute Club is affiliated with the Australian Parachute Federation.


Everything you can't find in our store, you might get at the Batchelor General Store, where Judy and Malcolm McGinn will be glad to help you.

Thanks to Robbie from RS Gardening Care our meadows are well groomed and taken care of.

Problems with your car? A flat tire? Whatever problems you got, they'll fix it at the Batchelor Cervice Center.

While in Batchelor, drop into the Coomalie Cultural Centre and peruse its presentation of indigenous arts and crafts from the Top End and Central Australia.

More interesting Information about Batchelor you will find at the Coomalie Community Government Council .
History of Batchelor, courtesy of the Northern Territory Tourist Commission   The Nortern Territory Tourist Commission

The town was named after the South Australian Labour politician Egerton Lee Batchelor (1865-1911) who became Minister for the Northern Territory in 1911. Batchelor grew slowly, with brief spurts of mining activity until World War II when it was turned into an Allied airforce. In the 1950s a prospector named Jack White discovered uranium deposits at nearby Rum Jungle. Legend has it that Rum Jungle earned its name after a rather raucous incident in 1871. A bullock-wagon load of rum became bogged near jungle in the East Finniss River prompting the fearless bullockies to settle in for one of the most notorious binges in Northern Territory history.
 
 

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