Humpty Doo

Humpty Doo is a small town with 3151 inhabitants in the Australian state of Northern Territory. The village is situated on the Arnhem Highway, about 40 km east of Darwin. Officials suspected that the name of the city on the one Aboriginessprache entstamme term ends Umdidu go back, which means " place of rest ".

Humpty Doo was in the 1950s scene of a significant agricultural experiment. The Company Territory Rice Ltd leased 303,000 hectares of land to grow rice in the flood plain of the Adelaide River.

In 1956, the Royal Australian Air Force where he built the dam Fogg Dam, through which the water supply of the cultivated area should be ensured. Since the capacity of 3.4 billion liters proved to be too low, another dam called Harrison Dam was built in the area who could accumulate about three times the amount of water.

When the area was declared in 1959 to the bird sanctuary, the failure of the project was already clear in 1962 rice production was then adjusted.

The project failed for several reasons: There was a lack of transport capacity of the cultivated rice, the water supply was not controlled, the funding was not secured, the responsibilities were not sufficiently centralized and Spaltfußgänse served on the seed.

Climate

A significant and through the plantations highly visible role in Humpty Doo, the cultivation of mangoes. Throughout the region, Darwin 2009 10.661 tons, worth about 28 million AUD were harvested in season.