Parap

About Parap

Parap is an inner suburb of Darwin in the Northern Territory, located four kilometres from the Darwin CBD on the traditional country of the Larrakia people. Established in 1912, the suburb was named by Dr John Gilruth, the first Commonwealth Administrator, after Paraparap, a pastoral property near Geelong. Parap was the site of the Darwin Rebellion on 17 December 1918 and the historic Parap aerodrome where Ross and Keith Smith landed their Vickers Vimy on 10 December 1919, completing the first Europe-to-Australia flight. The suburb is home to the Parap Village Market, the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and the 1934 Qantas Hangar.