Katherine, Northern Territory
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Katherine is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated on the Katherine River, after which it is named, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of Darwin. The fourth largest settlement in the Territory, it is known as the place where "The outback meets the tropics".
Katherine had an urban population of approximately 6,300 at the 2016 Census.
Katherine Main Street
Ministers Josiah Thomas, Sir Walter Barettelot and Dr. John Gilruth of the Federal Parliamentary Party visiting Katherine Telegraph Station in 1912
Edith Falls at the end of the wet season
Flora River Nature Park
Northern Territory
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The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
Thomas Baines with Aboriginal Australians near the mouth of the Victoria River.
Letters Patent annexing the Northern Territory to South Australia, 1863
The northern coast of Australia is on the left with Melville Island in the lower right
Mount Sonder, the fourth-highest mountain in the Northern Territory after nearby Mount Zeil, in West MacDonnell National Park