Tennant Creek Telegraph Station, Northern Territory, Sept 2015
TOP 7 TENNANT CREEK (NT) Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Tennant Creek, the 7th largest town in Northern Territory located about 1000 km south of Darwin and about 500 km north of Alice Springs.
Things to do in Tennant Creek is to visit tourist attractions such as Battery Hill Mining Centre, Nyinkka Nyunyu Cultural Centre, Tennant Creek Telegraph Station, Mary Ann Lake (Dam), Kelly's Ranch, Kundjarra (the Pebbles) and John Flynn Memorial Obelisk.
Thats all about what to do or where to go in Tennant Creek (NT). All the list in this video are must visit places in Tennant Creek, so dont forget to visit while you can when in Tennant Creek. Dont forget to also watching our other videos about Northern Territory and its area in this channel, Explore Australia.
Australia - Alice Springs e Tennant Creek
Viaggio da Alice Springs a Tennant Creek, con varie visite tra cui quella al Museo dello storico GHAN e varie Telegraph Station che hanno fatto la storia dell'Australia...
Video 266-Stuart Highway - Three Way Roadhouse to Tennant Creek
DashCam video of Stuart Highway. This provides you with the ability to virtually drive in the Australian outback. This video takes you on a 28km drive along the Stuart Highway from the Three Way Roadhouse to Tennant Creek.
Interesting Sections:
- Back on Stuart Highway 00:47
- Pebbles T/O 08:20
- Telegraph Station T/O 08:25
- Tennant Creek 09:10
- Lake Mary Ann T/O 12:33
- Arrival in Tennant Creek 14:55
RC12 Tennant Creek to Camooweal
From a morning start at the Devils Marbles we looked in on the Tennant Creek Telegraph Station. This key station on the old Overland Telegraph Line has been well restored and is worth a visit.
We then moved on to spend a night at Barkly Homestead before continuing to spend the last night if this part of our trip at the Camooweal Waterhole on the Georgina River where we captured some good video of water birds.
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Barrow Creek, Old Telegraph Station, Northern Territory
Barrow Creek Telegraph Station, Northern Territory, Australia 2011
It is definitely worth a stop by Barrow Creek Roadhouse to make a visit to Barrow Creek Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. It is also about the halfway point between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek. The Telegraph Station which opened in the late 19th century ran for about 100 years. You can wander round freely in and out of the different buildings which are in good condition and historical information is displayed too.
Barrow Creek Telegraph Station. Northern Territory.
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Trip to Tennant Creek NT Australia - Part 1
Bestestimes Photography December 2015. GoPro Hero 3 White Ed.
Tennant Creek & Barkly Region – Australia’s Outback
With roots in the Overland Telegraph Line, the gold rush, long dusty days of droving cattle and an important history supporting today’s modern indigenous culture in the Northern Territory.
For more information visit: australiasoutback.com
VLine Collection: A Reso Tour of Central Australia, Overland Telegraph (1925)
VIC RAIL & VLINE COLLECTION [Victorian Railway Commission]
The Victorian Railways collection comprises 15 hours of rich B&W and colour archival footage exploring train travel throughout Australia from 1923 onwards. The collection takes us nationwide via travelogues filmed for prospective tourists who might want to take a trip inland to the mountain or to coastal regions. In this clip, two Resources members travel to Central Australia and watch a skillful technician tapping into the Overland Telegraph line.
ABC ID: 336297
Tennant Creek to Daly Waters HD
A township of 23 people comprises a few houses and the very famous Daly Waters Hotel 407 km north of Tennant Creek and 7 km west of the Stuart Highway
In 1893 the Daly Waters Pub was built as a drover's rest, the mob always staging here for stores and a night out for the boys before tackling the Murranji leg of the drove. It is one of the oldest buildings in the Northern Territory.
The tiny settlement was named by John McDouall Stuart during his third epic attempt to cross Australia from south to north. Stuart named the springs after the new Governor of South Australia, Sir Dominick Daly.
On the way into town is the Stuart Tree with a plaque which reads: 'The explorer John McDouall Stuart is presumed to have carved the initial S on this tree on 23 May 1862 during his successful journey from Adelaide to Darwin 1861-62. Erected by the Northern Territory Forces in 1944’.
The Overland Telegraph Line reached Daly Waters in June,1872. The line was finally completed on 22 August, 1872.
Daly Waters Airstrip
On the way into town is the Daly Water Airstrip. It was constructed initially about 1930 for the Daly Waters Airmail run. It later became a major staging point for interstate and international airlines. It was declared a RAAF station on 18 March 1942.
Location on Google maps
Barrow Creek Hotel in the Northern Territory
A welcome stopover on the way to Tennant Creek from the Alice, Barrow Creek is a tiny town with the pub and the old Telegraph Station. With a caravan park and fuel supplies, it's worth a look!
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Stories of gold at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
Wartign Weezepael tells the story of the two men who, despite having only one eye between them, found gold in the Tennant Creek area. Hear his tale of Jack Noble and William Weaber, miners who struck it lucky and made their fortune, and how Tennant Creek went on to become home to the largest open-cut gold mine in Australia.
This Hat Yak tale ends with Wartign's unique explanation as to why Tennant Creek the town is so far from the creek after which it was named.
ABC Radio NT 4910Khz
ABC Shortwave Domestic Service broadcast from Tennant Creek NT on 4910 Khz (daytime frequency), received in Mildura Australia on a Realistic DX100 and sloping random wire antenna just prior to sunset.
ABC Radio NT provides programming to remote regions of Northern Australia where existing MW and FM Services are unable to be received.
Herveys Range Road bridge to Fletcher Creek via the Burdekin
Canoeing camping adventure
PINE CREEK NT AUSTRALIA part 1 of 2
caravan trip 2007 Pine Creek is a town in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory, Australia. According to the 2001 Australian census 665 people live in Pine Creek. Pine Creek is just off the Stuart Highway (the road from the south to Darwin) and is still a notable tourist stop. A number of events are held each year to promote the town in the region. These include the annual Goldrush Festival, featuring the NT Gold Panning championships and Didgeridoo Jam, the Pine Creek Rodeo and Pine Creek Races. In 2005 a prominent resident of Pine Creek, Edward Ah Toy, was recognised as the Northern Territorian of the year. History The town was founded in 1870 during the construction of the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin, in 1871 workers digging holes for the telegraph line found gold in the soil, triggering another Australian gold rush. The Northern Territory Railway was built between Pine Creek and Darwin, reaching Pine Creek in 1889 but closing in 1976. The old railway station and some old rolling stock remain. The Alice Springs - Darwin railway (used by The Ghan) now passes near the town. [edit] Indigenous History Pine Creek was traditionally the junction of three large indigenous ethnic groups. Stretching south-west from the Stuart Highway towards, and across, the Daly River was the land traditionally associated with the Wagiman people. The land east of the Stuart Highway and south of the Kakadu Highway, stretching to Katherine, was associated with the Jawoyn people, and north of the Kakadu Highway was land traditionally associated with Waray. [edit] Mining Pine Creek Goldfields Limited opened an open-cut gold mine in the region in 1985; however, the mine is now closed and its main pit, the Enterprise Pit, has been carefully filled with water to prevent acid build-up. wikipedia
ANU Science on Location: Warramunga Seismic Station
The Warramunga Seismic and Infrasound Research Station is located approximately 50km south of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Here, where the earth is quiet, researchers detect movement from nuclear blasts and earthquakes. Data from the station is fed in real-time back to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in Vienna. In this video, hear about the ANU researchers and staff who maintain the site.
ANU Science On Location tells the stories of ANU researchers who have conducted long-term research in diverse locations across Australia. For more stories like this, visit :
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Eyre Bird Observatory
Walking 10 km through low forest from the escarpment to the Eyre Bird Observatory. More info' ↓
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Dave and Amy's 4-wheel-drive journey down this track:
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Birdlife Australia's Eyre Bird Observatory web page:
During their nearly 2000 mile1841 journey overland from Adelaide to Albany, 26 year old Edward John Eyre and his party - companion John Baxter and three Aboriginal men - found fresh water two metres beneath a coastal sand dune, and camped there for a month, recovering from severe dehydration and exhaustion. This spot became known as Eyre's Sand Patch.
When the Inter-Colonial Telegraph Line reached the Patch in 1877, a weatherboard and corrugated iron building was erected to house a permanently-manned repeater station, and the spot was known as the Eyre Telegraph Station.
20 years later, in 1897, the station moved into a new limestone and corrugated iron building nearby until, in 1927 when the telegraph line moved 150 kilometres north to follow the Trans Australian Railway, the building was abandoned.
Fifty years later, in 1977, the limestone building was restored by volunteers with the support of the Post Office Historical Society and Birds Australia, using materials supplied by the WA Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and it now functions as a permanent bird observatory.
Honeyeaters who spend the summer in the deep south-west extend their range north and east in the winter to feast on the flowering mallee and, at Eyre, honeyeaters, silvereyes and other species are found wintering in the narrow coastal mallee strip. A colony of breeding penguins spends the summer west of Eyre at Twilight Cove. By 2008, 245 bird species had been recorded in the surrounding nature reserve.
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Roger Buddridge,
Introduction: A Brief History pp 2 & 3
and Stephen Davies
In Search of a Field Station for Naturalists p. 20
in Eyre's Sand Patch to Eyre Bird Observatory 2008
Editor: Alma de Rebeira.
ISBN: 978-0-646-48972-8.
Publisher: AM & CPS de Rebeira
PO Box 113
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(Also available from the Eyre Bird Observatory.)
The OTL (Old Telegraph Line) QLD
This is the view of the OTL - Old Telegraph Line just after leaving Bramwell Station July 2009. This is the smooth bit before some tricky bits.
Vincent Janima Band - Artweye Erlkwe
The 1st contemporary song ever recorded in Kaytete [ a Central Australian Indigenous language]
Day 2 - The Borella Ride travels toward Banka Banka
On day two of The Borella Ride the team take a quick swim and then depart the Tennant Creek Telegraph Station walking toward Banka Banka.