Northern Territory

To go from Alice Springs to Darwin, you must travel north.

The floral emblem of the Northern Territory is Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum). The faunal emblem of the Northern Territory is the Red Kangaroo, and the bird is the Wedge Tailed Eagle.

Alice Springs came about as a result of the exploration of John McDouall Stuart.

In 1862, Stuart's third expedition succeeded in finding a route through the central Australia to the north coast, navigating and mapping the country for white settlement. The construction of the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin was completed in 1872.

The springs after which the town was named were discovered on 11 March 1871 by the team building the Overland Telegraph Line. They actually lie to the north-east of the town and were named after the wife of Charles Todd, the man instrumental in securing the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line for South Australia. Surveyors William Whitfield Mills and John Ross both claim credit for the discovery of the springs.

Alice Springs was the name given to the telegraph repeater station which operated from 1872 to 1932. The actual town, originally surveyed in 1888, was 3km south of the telegraph station. Until the early 1930s, the official name of the town was Stuart. However, this created confusion for administrators in Adelaide, so on 31 August 1933 the township of Stuart was officially gazetted Alice Springs.

Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory in Australia.

• Ayers Rock/ Uluru
• the central Australian town of Alice Springs
• Kakadu National Park
• the Henley-on-Todd regatta, a boat race held on a dry riverbed (sometimes the Todd River actually has water in it, and at these times the Henley-on-Todd is cancelled

Australia is very large geographically and a climatically diverse country ranging from tropical to temperate and desert to alpine and everything in between, and there is a wide range of plant life adapted to each environment.

Australia is home to many plant species that grow nowhere else in the world. Even the deserts, which constitute nearly two-thirds of the continent, have a surprising diversity of plant life including the Desert Oak and Spinifex grass which have a strangely simbiotic relationship.

For details of specific plant species, see the related question.

The middle part of Australia has no particular name. The very centre is commonly called the Red Centre, due to the landscape characterised by red sand and bulldust. Much of the vast interior is called the Outback, a general term that refers to any region remote from major settled areas.

There is no Australian state which shares a border with all other states. No state except for Victoria shares a land border with Tasmania. South Australia shares a border with all mainland states and the Northern Territory.

Dots in aboriginal paintings can represent a variety of things, such as stars, sparks, tracks or burnt holes. Sometimes they merely form a background to the story being told in the artwork. The dots can also have the unusual function of obscuring the real story of the painting, and keeping secret meanings hidden.

Further detailed explanation can be found at the related link below.

You can make copies or imitations of aboriginal art, but if you are not aboriginal, neither is your work.

A nationalbank provided a system for a territory to be a state because debt helped them get out of debt in order to buy new land.

It is unknown how many people were killed in the Darwin bombings, but according to the original records, 243 civilians and military personnel were killed. This number was later revised to "about 250", and later again, revised upwards still.

The real toll is believed to have been much higher, as these figures did not include the many Indigenous Australians who lived in the area. Also, not all of the crews of some of the merchant ships were fully known.

There was one report in the 1990s which suggested the figure was 1,024, but there is no substance to this claim.

It is interesting to note that, at the time, the government announced that 17 people had been killed, in an effort to preserve morale.

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The people of the Northern Territory, Australia are simply known as Territorians.

Considering the Katherine River as a tributary with a combined length of 690 km, the Daly River would apparently stretch some 662 km or 225 miles.

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On 1 January 1911, the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. This was when the town of Palmerston became known as "Port Darwin", and officially appointed as the capital of the Northern Territory. The harbour was always named Darwin as it was discovered by the Beagle and originally named Palmerston after the Prime Minister It was not actually given the designation of "city" until 26 January 1959. (There is still a region known as Palmerston, but it is separate and distinct from Darwin itself.)

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No. Alice Springs is the largest city - and the only city - in central Australia. It is not a capital.

Darwin, Northern Territory's area is 112.01 square kilometers.

The Northern Territory does not have a Premier. The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory holds a similar position to that of the state premier. As of March 2013, the Chief Minister is Adam Giles. The Member for Braitling, Giles is the first indigenous head of government.

I believe that in 1911 the town of "Palmerston" was name changed to "Darwin" (3 March 1911) when it's control was transferred from South Australia to the Commonwealth Government of Australia.

If the above date should really read "1941" then all I can say is that on 19th February 1942 the Japanese heavily bombed the city as part of WW2. It's been estimated that 188 Japanese airplanes bombed the city and it's harbour - a lot of American navy ships were in port at the time. Overall more bombs were dropped on Darwin that day than at Pearl Harbour.