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Outrigger Pandanas

building in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2839464
Source-derived summary

Outrigger Pandanas is the second-tallest building in Darwin. It is at 43 Knuckey Street, in the eastern side of the Darwin central business district. Built from 2006 to 2007 with the Pandanas Office Suite being completed by 2009, its roof is 91 m (299 ft) above ground. It comprises 29 levels of mixed use for residential and commercial.\

The building is currently managed by the Saville Hotel Group which manages more than 150 resorts, hotels and apartments across Australia and New Zealand. Stage 1 of the Pandanas office suite is currently under construction by Gwelo Investments Pty Ltd. Development will comprise with 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) of office space over six levels together with the ground floor retail area.

Editorial summary

“Outrigger Pandanas” enters the record as building in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Outrigger, Pandanas and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Outrigger, Pandanas and building.
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Why this record matters

“Outrigger Pandanas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Outrigger, Pandanas and building provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2839464. Authority coordinates are -12.461, 130.843. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2007 and 2009.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from Outrigger Pandanas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.