History
The suburb of Karama is named after an Aboriginal tribe.
Karama is an established residential area in Darwin's northern suburbs built in the period from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.
In 1964, Douglas Lockwood recommended that a number of tribal names be used for the suburbs of Darwin. The suburbs Karama was listed.
Read more about this topic: Karama, Northern Territory
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