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Specialty Museum Attractions In Northern Territory

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The Northern Territory is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west , South Australia to the south , and Queensland to the east . To the north, the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. Despite its large area—covering 1,349,129 square kilometres , making it the third largest Australian federal division, and the 11th largest country subdivision in the world—it is sparsely populated. The Northern Territory's population of 246,700 makes it the least...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Northern Territory

  • 1. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
    The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory is the main museum in the Northern Territory. The museum is located in the inner Darwin suburb of Fannie Bay. The MAGNT is governed by the Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and is supported by the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Foundation. Each year the MAGNT presents both internally developed exhibitions and travelling exhibitions from around Australia. It is also the home of the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Australia's longest running Indigenous art prize.
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  • 2. Defence of Darwin Experience Darwin
    The Australian Defence Force is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Australia. It consists of the Royal Australian Navy , Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force and a number of 'tri-service' units. The ADF has a strength of just under 80,000 full-time personnel and active reservists, and is supported by the Department of Defence and several other civilian agencies. During the first decades of the 20th century, the Australian Government established the armed services as separate organisations. Each service had an independent chain of command. In 1976, the government made a strategic change and established the ADF to place the services under a single headquarters. Over time, the degree of integration has increased and tri-service headquarters, logistics and training...
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  • 3. Timber Creek Police Station and Museum Timber Creek
    Timber Creek is an isolated small town on the banks of the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Victoria Highway passes through the town, which is the only significant settlement between the Western Australia border and the town of Katherine to the east. Timber Creek is approximately 600 kilometres south of Darwin, in an area known for its scenic escarpments and Boab trees.
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  • 4. Road Transport Hall of Fame Alice Springs
    The National Road Transport Hall of Fame is a transport museum based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.The future of the National Road Transport Hall of Fame is unknown with the resignation of CEO Liz Martin.
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  • 8. Adelaide River Railway Museum Adelaide River
    Adelaide railway station is the central terminus of the Adelaide Metro railway system. All lines approach the station from the west, and it is a terminal station with no through lines, with most of the traffic on the metropolitan network either departing or terminating here. It has nine platforms, all using broad gauge track. It is located on the north side of North Terrace, west of Parliament House. The Adelaide Casino occupies part of the building that is no longer required for railway use. Until 1984, Adelaide station was also the terminus for regional and interstate passenger trains, but there are no longer any regular regional train services in South Australia, and all interstate services are now handled at Adelaide Parklands Terminal.
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  • 11. Katherine Museum Katherine
    Katherine is a town in Northern Territory, Australia. It is situated on the Katherine River below the Top End, 320 kilometres southeast of Darwin. It is the fourth largest settlement in the Territory and 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 is also the closest major town to RAAF Base Tindal located 17 km southeast and provides education, health, local government services and employment opportunities for the families of Defence personnel stationed there. In the 2016 census, the base had a residential population of 857, with only around 20% of the workforce engaged in employment outside of defence, the majority commuting to work in Katherine. Beginning as an outpost established with t...
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  • 12. Central Australia Aviation Museum Alice Springs
    The Central Australian Aviation Museum is an aviation museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The current Museum Building was erected in 1940/41 and served as the main base of operations for Connellan Airways from 1939 to 1968. Due to the limitations of this Townsite Aerodrome for larger aircraft operations and the expansion of Alice Springs, the move to the present airport was eventually forced upon Connellan Airways. The larger Bellman Hangar, which occupied the site next to the present hangar was moved to the present airport and all operations ceased at Townsite by June 1968. The Townsite Hangar was left derelict and the air strips disappeared under the rapid expansion of Alice Springs. The houses and road fronting the Museum are on the old main runway. By 1977 little tr...
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  • 13. Adelaide House Museum Alice Springs
    Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province ...
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  • 14. The Residency Alice Springs
    The Residency holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory. It also provided a hub of social and cultural activities for the local residents. John Charles Cawood was appointed Government Resident of Central Australia in 1926 and was to be based at the capital, Stuart .
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  • 15. Old Ghan Museum Alice Springs
    The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is a railway museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, with a tourist railway attached. It is operated by the Road Transport Historical Society, which also operates the adjacent National Road Transport Hall of Fame. The museum contains narrow gauge equipment from the original Central Australian Railway which operated to Alice Springs from 1929 to c1980 until replaced by a flood-free standard gauge line.
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