Nicholson, Northern Territory

Nicholson is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the territory's east adjoining the border with the state of Queensland about 963 km south-east of the territory capital of Darwin.

The locality consists of the following land (from north to south, then west to east): As of 2020, it has an area of 26671 km2.
 * 1) The Waannyi/Garawa Aboriginal Lands Trust
 * 2) Land described as NT Portion 561, and the Mittiehan and Mount Drummond pastoral leases, and
 * 3) The Alexandria pastoral lease.

The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the Nicholson River which was named by the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt during his 1844/45 expedition after "Dr William Alleyne Nicholson of Bristol, England."

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Nicholson had a population of 60 people.

Nicholson is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Barkly Region.