Administrator of the Northern Territory
The administrator of the Northern Territory is an official appointed by the governor-general of Australia to represent the government of the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory, Australia. They perform functions similar to those of a state governor.
From left: Minister Josiah Thomas, Sir Walter Barttelot and Administrator John Gilruth in 1912.
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