Northern Territory
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The Northern Territory is an Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west, South
Thomas Baines with Aboriginal Australians near the mouth of the Victoria River.
The 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
Alice Springs
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Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement in the Northern Territory after Darwin and Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor Wil
Northern Territory
…Tasmania. The largest population centre is the capital city of Darwin, having about 52.6% of the Territory's population. The largest inland settlement is Alice Springs with a population of about 25,000 people. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans…
View of Alice Springs from Anzac Hill, with MacDonnell Ranges and Heavitree Gap in the background
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Todd River spring, the "springs" that give the town its name
The original Alice Springs Telegraph Station was built in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide.