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The Northern Territory is Australia's least populated and most barren
state its landscape is varied and immense encompassing tropical coastline,
lush green rainforests and the vast Red Centre of its outback heart.
Bordering Queensland to the east, South Australia in the south, West
Australia the west and breaking the waters of the Arafura Sea to the
north, NT is Australia's gateway to Asia.
The state's top end is known as just that, The Top End, and covers
tropical coastline, the indigenous home of Arnhem Land and the NT capital,
Darwin. Darwin is a relaxed, multicultural city and it's close proximity
to Asia and the tropical coastline have made it a cosmopolitan city with a
difference.
South of Darwin is the kaleidoscope of rainforests, plunge pools,
termite mounds and cycads of Litchfield National Park and the magnificent
sandstone gorges of Katherine Gorge. To the east is the majestic
Mary River Wetlands, the heritage listed Kakadu National Park and the
awesome beauty of Arnhem Land and the Gove Peninsula.
Central Australia or the Red Centre, is much more than Uluru (Ayers
Rock) it is a landscape of meteorite craters, eerie canyons and lost
valleys. The cultural and spiritual significance of this area to
local Aborigines seems to echo in landscape. The Uluru-Kate Tuta
National Park is owned by the local Anangu Aboriginal people and managed
by Parks Australia. Uluru rises 348 metres above the desert floor
and measures 9.4 km's in circumference, nearby are the Olgas, Kings
Canyon, Standley Chasm and the McDonnell Ranges. |
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