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62 unusual facts about Northern Territory


Air Combat Group RAAF

The Wings under the Air Combat Group are located at RAAF Base Amberley, near Brisbane, Queensland, RAAF Base Williamtown, near Newcastle, New South Wales, RAAF Base Pearce, near Perth, Western Australia, and RAAF Base Tindal, near Katherine, Northern Territory.

Alice Springs Public Library

The main office however is based almost 1500 km away in Darwin.

Austroliotia darwinensis

This marine species occurs off Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, at depths between 39 m and 190 m.

Avro 547

Despite this, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) bought the first prototype in November 1920 for GBP 2,798 with the intention of using it on a route between Charleville and Katherine.

Balancing rock

Many good examples of erosional remnants are seen in the Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Bradshaw Field Training Area

It occupies approximately 870,000 hectares, starting 500 metres north of the settlement of Timber Creek.

Breast cancer survivors' dragon boating

Dragons Abreast Australia head office is based in Darwin in the Northern Territory and is a registered charity.

Byblis aquatica

This species has a very limited distribution in the Australian Northern Territory.

C. W. M. Hart

Charles William Merton Hart (1905–1976) was a social anthropologist and sociologist best known for his study of the Tiwi people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands (or Tiwi Islands) in north Australia during the 1920s.

Court Up North

The documentary explores the issues surrounding the criminal law system in the Northern Territory, particularly in relation to remote communities and Indigenous Australians.

Cyclone Thelma

A record 425 mm (16.7 in) of rain was recorded within 24 hours at Howard Springs, and a 48 hour total of 432 mm (17 in) was recorded at Darwin Airport from 8 December to 10 December.

Darwin FM

Currently, coverage of Darwin FM is divided into two frequencies; 91.5 MHz which is broadcast from Casuarina, covering to Darwin City.

Dipodium

Dipodium stenocheilum - tropical hyacinth-orchid, from the northern parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Driver Group

Driver Group today operates charters originating in Melbourne and operating to destinations around the country, Great Sights day tours in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and Gray Line Australia day tours in Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Adelaide, Darwin, Alice Springs and Tasmania.

Eisteddfod

Many other communities host smaller eisteddfods, including Alice Springs, Darwin and Melbourne.

Electoral district of Stuart

The electorate is named after John McDouall Stuart, who pioneered a route across through this area from the settled areas in the south to the port of Darwin in the north.

Electoral division of Arnhem

Arnhem is an almost entirely rural electorate, covering 99,269 km², and taking in the towns of Alyangula, Angurugu, Barunga, Beswick, Ngukurr, Numbulwar and Milingimbi.

Electoral division of Blain

Blain is an urban electorate, covering 18 km² and taking in the Palmerston suburbs of Moulden, Woodroffe, Zuccoli and the western half of Rosebery.

Electoral division of Braitling

The city of Alice Springs has, along with the Darwin satellite city of Palmerston, traditionally been one of two conservative bastions in the Northern Territory.

Electoral division of Casuarina

It was first created in 1974 and was named after the adjacent suburb of Casuarina.

Casuarina is an entirely urban electorate, covering only 18 km² and taking in the suburbs of Brinkin, Nakara, Tiwi and part of Alawa, as well as the Charles Darwin University.

Electoral division of Drysdale

It covers 12 km², encompassing north-western suburban areas of Palmerston including the CBD and the suburbs of Driver, Durack, Gray and Yarrawonga.

Electoral division of Fannie Bay

It is located in the inner northern suburbs of Darwin, with its current boundaries including the suburbs of Fannie Bay (from which it derives its name), Parap, East Point, The Narrows, The Gardens and parts of Stuart Park.

Electoral division of Fong Lim

Fong Lim is located in the suburban corridor between Darwin and Palmerston.

Electoral division of Johnston

Johnston is an urban electorate, covering only 4 km² and taking in the Darwin suburbs of Jingili, Moil, Wagaman and part of Alawa.

Electoral division of Karama

It was first created in 1987, and derives its name from the suburb of the same name.

It is an urban electorate, covering only 4 km² and taking in the Darwin suburbs of Karama and Malak.

Electoral division of Katherine

Katherine encompasses both urban and rural areas, covering an area of 7,428 km² and taking in the city of Katherine, as well as the Tindal RAAF Base and the Binjari Aboriginal Community.

Electoral division of Nhulunbuy

Nhulunbuy is a rural electorate, covering 113,600 km² and taking in the towns of Nhulunbuy, Galiwinku, Yirrkala and Gapuwiyak.

Electoral division of Nightcliff

Nightcliff is one of the smallest electorates in the Territory, covering only 3.37 km² and taking in the suburb of Nightcliff, most of Rapid Creek and a small area of Coconut Grove.

Electoral division of Port Darwin

It was first created in 1974, and is an entirely urban electorate, covering only 11 km² and taking in the Darwin central business district, as well as the suburb of Larrakeyah and part of Stuart Park.

Electoral division of Sanderson

Sanderson is an urban electorate, covering 5.51 km² and taking in the Darwin suburbs of Anula, Marrara, Wulagi and part of Malak.

Electoral division of Stuart

It is a large rural electorate encompassing much of the western Territory, covering 383,859 km² and taking in the towns of Dagaragu, Lajamanu, Willowra, Yuendumu, and part of the north-eastern side of Alice Springs.

Electoral division of Wanguri

Wanguri is an urban electorate, covering 40 km², and taking in the north Darwin suburbs of Wanguri, Karama and Leanyer.

Gerry Wood

Wood worked in Daly River and Bathurst Island as a young man, working in a number of careers, including running a tourist operation and working as the town clerk of Nguiu.

HMAS Patricia Cam

After commissioning into the RAN on 3 March 1942, HMAS Patricia Cam was based in Darwin, where she was mainly used to transport supplies to small communities and military outposts.

On 22 January 1943, while near the Wessel Islands off the north coast of the Northern Territory, Patricia Cam was attacked and sunk by a Japanese floatplane.

Hundred of Bagot

Bagot is a suburb of Darwin, which like the rest of the suburbs of Darwin, are part of the Hundred.

Katherine Airfield

Katherine Airfield was an airfield in the town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia.

Katherine East, Northern Territory

Katherine East is an eastern suburb of the town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia.

Lateline

Reporter Suzanne Smith in 2005 won a Logie Award for "Most Outstanding News Coverage" for her story about sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

Legal and medical status of cannabis

In Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory; non-industrial cannabis is criminalized, although prison sentences for small amounts are rare.

LGBT history in Australia

In 2004, the Northern Territory removed legislative discrimination against same-sex couples in most areas of territory law, and the ACT began allowing same-sex couples to adopt.

MacDonald Airfield

MacDonald Airfield was an airfield built alongside the former northern road, west of Stuart Highway, north of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Mount Fitch

Mount Fitch, Northern Territory, a mountain of approximately 70 m in Australia, part of the old Rum Jungle, Northern Territory uranium mines near Batchelor, 64 km south of Darwin, Northern Territory.

Mount Pluto

Mount Pluto, Australia, a volcanic cone associated with Mount Hutton and Mount Playfair, in Northern Territory

No. 31 Squadron RAAF

the squadron undertook a period of training before deploying to Batchelor, Northern Territory, in October, the aircraft flying via Alice Springs.

No. 322 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF

322 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron (322ECSS) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) ground support squadron based at RAAF Base Tindal near Katherine, Northern Territory.

No. 34 Squadron RAAF

It lost one of the Tiger Moths to a bushfire on 1 July, a few days after the plane crashlanded south of Katherine.

No. 40 Squadron RNZAF

Humanitarian missions have included flying in the first cyclone Tracy relief supplies to Darwin, assisting victims of the Bali bombing and the Boxing Day Tsunami.

No. 482 Squadron RAAF

 4 Repair and Servicing Unit on 1 January 1945, and re-located to Winnellie, Northern Territory, on 11 May.

No. 5 Fighter Sector RAAF

Initially set up in tents near Sandfly Gully, south of the RAAF Darwin runway in early 1942, 5FS's position was deemed to be too exposed and the unit relocated to Berrimah, Northern Territory, near No. 119 Australian General Hospital, where an operations room had been constructed.

Oodnadatta Airport

It was utilised by the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 34 Squadron to courier equipment and stores, transport troops and utilised by RAAF and United States Army Air Force fighter and bomber aircraft en route to Darwin, Northern Territory.

Pine Creek Airfield

Pine Creek Airfield was an emergency landing ground at Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Pteridium esculentum

It is found in all states of Australia apart from the Northern Territory, as well as New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Malaysia, Polynesia, and New Caledonia.

Robert Tudawali

Tudawali died of severe burns on 26 July 1967 following an incident on Bagot community, Darwin.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Adelaide based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Roper River

It is navigable for about 145 km, until the tidal limit at Roper Bar, and forms the southern boundary of the region known as Arnhem Land.

Top End

The Top End contains both of the Territory's cities and one of its major towns, Darwin, Palmerston and Katherine.

Xavier Herbert

Capricornia was in part based on Herbert's experiences as Protector of Aborigines in Darwin, though it was written in London between 1930 and 1932.

Yasukichi Murakami

In 1936, with Gregory's assistance, he and his family moved to Darwin.

Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker

The Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker was officially launched in Katherine on 1 September 2011.


104.1 Territory FM

The station is broadcast on 104.1 Darwin and Palmerston and 98.7 Alice Springs and can also be heard across the Northern Territory in Batchelor, Katherine/Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River.

2009 Skycity Triple Crown

It contained Rounds 9 and 10 of the series and was held on the weekend of 19–21 June at Hidden Valley Raceway, in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Attacus wardi

Attacus wardi is known only from Darwin, Black Point Cobourg Peninsula and Melville Island.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Australian Protective Service

Protection of sensitive defence establishments, including Defence Headquarters at Russell Offices in Canberra; the joint Australian/US communications facility at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory; the former atomic testing site at Maralinga in South Australia; the Australian Defence Signals facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station at Exmouth, both in Western Australia

Australian Super Sedan Championship

New South Wales driver Grenville Anderson (1951-2004), holds the record for most championship wins with four titles to his name - 1975/76 (Rowley Park Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia), 1977/78 (Claremont Speedway in Perth, Western Australia), 1979/80 (Bagot Park in Darwin, Northern Territory), and 1992/93 (Latrobe Speedway in Latrobe, Tasmania).

Blue Waters, Perth

A cousin, Marshall Perron lived there for a while as a young man before establishing himself as a Northern Territory politician and chief minister.

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Cattle station

Buchanan was associated with the opening up and stocking of several cattle stations in the Victoria River district and the Ord River region.

Darwin Harbour

Riverine discharge is relatively low with the exception of the Blackmore River and Elizabeth River.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra

The Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an orchestra based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, founded by Martin Jarvis.

Eremophila alternifolia

alternifolia occurs in arid areas of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory and the Barrier Range in New South Wales, in many different habitats with stony or red soil.

Exercise Pitch Black

Although the 2000, 2004 and 2006 exercises were held in the Northern Territory, the 2002 exercise was scaled down and held at RAAF Bases Amberley and Williamtown, on the Australian east coast.

Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu

Kurrupuwu was born in Nguiu on Bathurst Island, the smaller of the two main Tiwi Islands.

Frederick Renner

Frederich Emil Renner (1821-1893) was a doctor who dispensed medical advice to the team working on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Gametraders

As of May 2013, there are 17 Gametraders stores across Australia in all states except the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

Graeme Sawyer

Graeme Sawyer (born 28 January 1957) is the former Lord Mayor of the City of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Gulumbu Yunupingu

Gulumbu Yunupingu (c. 1943 – 10 May 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Hajime Toyoshima

His A6M Zero was the first of that type (after those recovered after the Attack on Pearl Harbor) to be recovered relatively intact on Allied territory when he crash landed on Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia.

History of Australian rules football

The Arafura Games, held in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia is a Multi-sport event for South East Asia and East Asian island nations, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands which has Australian football as a permanent competition sport, rather than a demonstration sport.

Isadore Samuel Emanuel

At this stage the Emanuels entered into a business partnership in 1902 with Sidney Kidman and acquired a property in the neighbouring Northern Territory, Victoria River Downs Station.

Jameson cell

Also in 1989, Peko Mines, then a division of North Broken Hill Peko Limited, engaged Professor Jameson to undertake test work in its Warrego concentrator near Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory.

Les Gilbert

In 1990, Gilbert released a "Natural Symphony" CD titled Kakadu Billiabong which is an unedited, high quality recording of dawn at a billabong on Nourlangie Creek in Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory.

Mertens' water monitor

The monitor is found in coastal and inland waters across much of northern Australia, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, across the Top End of the Northern Territory and the Gulf Country, to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland.

Mudginberri dispute

The Mudginberri station is some 250 km east of Darwin along the Arnhem Highway in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Nabarlek

The nabarlek is found in three distinct population areas: in Arnhem Land (including Groote Eylandt); between the Mary and Victoria Rivers in the Top End; and the coastal Kimberley region of Western Australia, including some islands in the Bonaparte Archipelago.

No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit RAAF

While 1RSU's headquarters are located at RAAF Base Edinburgh the unit also has personnel stationed at the JORN sites near Longreach in Queensland, Alice Springs in the Northern Territory and Laverton in Western Australia.

Pilbara Regiment

It is responsible for an area of 1.3 million square kilometres from Port Hedland to Carnarvon in Western Australia, and from the coast to the border with the Northern Territory; being approximately one-sixth of the total Australia mass.

Problem gambling

A 2010 study, conducted in the Northern Territory by researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and Southern Cross University (SCU), found that the proximity of a person's residence to a gambling venue is significant in terms of prevalence.

Red Goshawk

Sites identified by BirdLife International as being important for Red Goshawk conservation are Lilyvale in Far North Queensland, Kakadu Savanna and the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, and Mornington Sanctuary in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Roper River Scrub Robin

The description was based on two skins obtained in 1910, supposedly from the tropical monsoonal Roper River region of the eastern Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.

South Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.

Stylidium dunlopianum

S. dunlopianums distribution ranges from the Mitchell River area in Western Australia east to the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.

Wangga

Wangga (sometimes spelt as Wongga) is an indigenous Australian genre of traditional music and ceremony which originated in northern areas of the country from South Alligator River south east towards Ngukurr, south to the Katherine region of Northern Territory and west into the Kimberley of Western Australia.

Warumungu language

The Warumungu (or Warramunga) language is spoken by about 500 of the Warumungu people in Australia's Northern Territory.