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unusual facts about The Northern Territory



Santalum lanceolatum

The native range of the plant extends from north-western Victoria, northwards through New South Wales to North Queensland, westwards across The Northern Territory and into North Western Western Australia.


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Aboriginal Land Rights Commission

In 1976, the Fraser Government passed The Aboriginal Land Rights Act that allowed Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory to make claims on land to which they could prove traditional ties.

Adrian McAdam

McAdam then began to concentrate on cricket and in 2003 represented the Northern Territory Chief Minister's XI, captained by Michael Clarke, in a three day match against the touring Bangladeshis.

Alligator River

Alligator Rivers are three rivers in and near Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory

Australian String Quartet

In addition, ASQ has an extensive regional touring programme throughout Australia (from small mining towns, to the Northern Territory's capital, Darwin) and appears at major international festivals in Adelaide, Sydney, and Austria.

Auvergne

Auvergne Station, a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia

Barkly Shire

In October 2006 the Northern Territory Government announced the reform of local government areas.The intention of the reform was to improve and expand the delivery of services to towns and communities across the Northern Territory by establishing eleven new shires.

Bhisadej Rajani

In the 1969 narcotics crisis, during which hill tribes villagers in the northern territory grew opuim, King Bhumibol Adulyadej established the Royal Project centred at Fang District under his command to encourage the hill tribes to renounce opium-growing.

Brian Martin

Brian Ross Martin (born 1947), Chief Justice of the Northern Territory, Australia

Brian Frank Martin (born 1936), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

C. arenaria

Croitana arenaria, the inland sand-skipper, a butterfly species endemic to the Northern Territory and South Australia

Caledon

Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia

Carpentaria

In recent years, particularly in the capital of the Northern Territory, Darwin, the maturation of gardens after their destruction during Cyclone Tracy in 1974, has resulted in many thousands of specimens of these local palms reaching maturity and fruiting.

Charles Abbott

Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott (1886–1975), Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia

Coggan

Michael Coggan, Australian news presenter, currently lead anchor for ABC News in the Northern Territory

Diocese of the Northern Territory

1968–1983: Clyde Wood (afterwards Bishop of the Northern Territory, 1983)

Donald Clive Anderson

In 1924 with C. L. Morell, Anderson toured several stations in the Northern Territory and Queensland - Barclay Downs, Lawn Hill Station, Alexandra - before returning through Goondiwindi and Pukawidgi near Inverell in 1925.

Douglas-Daly Experiment Station

Located at the junction of the Douglas and Daly Rivers and covering an area of approximately 100 km², the site spanned three major soil types of the Top End of the Northern Territory - Blain, Tippera and Florina soil types.

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.

Geography of Mizoram

Tuivawl flows through the northern territory and eventually join the Barak River in Cachar District.

Georgina River

These include the Burke River, flowing through the basin's major town of Boulia, the upper Georgina River itself rising in the Barkly Tableland north of Camooweal, the Ranken River rising in the extreme east of the Northern Territory beyond Tennant Creek, and the Sandover River.

Gilruth

John A. Gilruth (1871–1937), Australian veterinary scientist and former Administrator of the Northern Territory

Government of the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory Government is a member of the Council of Australian Governments.

Gulf snapping turtle

The turtle is restricted to rivers draining into the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory and Queensland, from the Nicholson to Calvert River systems in the Northern Territory, to the Gregory River in Queensland.

Harry C. Giese

Harry Giese AM MBE (1913–2000) administered Australian federal government policy for the people of the Northern Territory under Prime Ministers including Robert Menzies and Harold Holt and Ministers including Paul Hasluck.

James Archer

James C. Archer (1900–1980), Administrator of the Northern Territory

John Roper

John Roper (explorer) (c. 1822–?), Australian explorer; namesake of Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory

Lake Eyre basin

The Georgina River system originates on the Barkly Tableland, near the Northern Territory-Queensland border, north-west of Mount Isa and not far south of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention

Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention is a 2008 Quarterly Essay by Australian journalist Paul Toohey.

Laverton, Western Australia

Laverton is the westernmost town on the Outback Way - a proposed highway which goes through the Northern Territory to Winton in outback Queensland.

Namatjira

Electoral division of Namatjira, an electorate of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

Northern Territory Certificate of Education

The TER is calculated by the South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre (SATAC) for students who successfully complete the Northern Territory Certificate of Education (NTCE) and fulfill certain other criteria to qualify for a TER.

Northern Territory National Emergency Response

In 2010, James Anaya, a United Nations Special Rapporteur, found the Emergency Response to be racially discriminating and infringe on the human rights of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory.

Pine Creek railway station

In 1914, following the Commonwealth taking over administration of the Northern Territory and railway, the line was extended to Emungalan, on the northern bank of the Katherine River to serve the pastoral industry and transport cattle to Vestey's Meatworks in Darwin.

Pintupi dialect

Pintupi is the name commonly used to refer to a variety of the Western Desert Language spoken by indigenous people whose traditional lands are in the area between Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay, stretching from Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory to Jupiter Well (west of Pollock Hills) in Western Australia.

Politics of Australia

Queensland in particular, along with Western Australia and the Northern Territory, are regarded as comparatively conservative.

Sandover Highway

The designated highway finishes near Lake Nash, just east of Alpurrurulam, on the Northern Territory/Queensland border, but the track continues into Queensland for 55 km where it joins a track north to Camooweal.

Simpson Desert

The Donohue Highway is an unpaved outback track passing from near Boulia towards the Northern Territory border in the north of the desert.

Sturts Meadows Station

Wallace embarked on a trek from Sturts Meadow in January 1880 heading north to the properties he had acquired leases to in the Northern Territory along the Roper River in 1879.

Tamarix aphylla

Within these regions it has spread, most dramatically and noticeably in central Australia after floods of 1974 along the Finke River in the Northern Territory.

Tennant Creek

It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway.

Utetheisa pectinata

It is found on the islands of Arafura Sea (Moa, Dammer, Tiandoe and Tam, Tenimber, Little Key) and in Australia (where it is only known from the coastal strip of the Northern Territory).

Victoria River Downs

Victoria River Downs Station, a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia

Wait-a-while

Smilax australis, a vine that occurs in eastern Australia and the Northern Territory

Walter Griffiths

At the 1893 South Australian election Griffiths was elected, along with Solomon, to the Northern Territory seat.

YourLastRight.com

Marshall Perron, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and the first head of state anywhere in the world to have voluntary euthanasia legalised, and others, serve as special advisors.