About this property
Alternate search: Unit 3, 14 LAKESIDE DRIVE.
14 Lakeside Drive, Alawa NT 810, Australia
Alternate search: Unit 3, 14 LAKESIDE DRIVE.
The address is a unit, offering low‑maintenance living within the Alawa suburb of Darwin.
Several parks lie nearby, including Bald Park (about 0.1 km), Young Park (0.4 km), Varney Park and Cameron Park (both about 0.5 km), and Alawa Park (0.6 km).
Rapid Creek runs just 0.3 km from the unit, and the suburb’s boundary also follows the creek, providing easy access to the river environment.
The unit borders the Casuarina Shopping Centre, the Territory’s largest retail complex, and a smaller local shopping centre is also situated within Alawa.
Alawa was constructed in the late 1960s and is named after the Alawa Aboriginal tribe whose traditional lands extend from the southern tributaries of the Roper River.
The area is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people, the original custodians of this part of the Northern Territory.
Yes, many street names in Alawa commemorate residents and workers of the old Darwin Post Office who were killed in the 1942 Japanese bombing, as well as boats and individuals linked to early Palmerston settlement.