Darwin City

Darwin is made up a people from all over the world. The capital of the Northern Territory, Darwin is closer to Jarkarta than it is to Sydney and closer to Singapore than it is to Melbourne, with Bali only an hour by plane away. Its no wonder that this tropical tourism highlight looks as much to asia as it does towards the rest of Australia in terms of style, lifestyle and atmosphere!

FAST FACTS:

• Main Industry is Tourism
• The populations is currently approx. 114, 364 residents with an increase of around 2.6 annually
• Weather is broken up into two different seasons. The Dry season and the Wet season
• Unemployment 5.3%
• Was named after the father of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin and was founded in 1869
• Has been destroyed twice! Once by Cyclone tracey in 1974 which completed flattened the town and again in 1942 during the bombing of Darwin in the pacific war when the japanese attempted to destroy the capital.

More Facts

• Is the Captial City of the Northern Territory of Australia.
• Situated on the Timor Sea.
• Has a population of around 130,000 people.
• It is the smallest and the most northerly of the all the Australian cities.
• Darwin is closer to Bali than any of its interstate cities.
• The city itself is built on a low cliff range overlooking the harbour.
• Darwins climate is tropical consisting of two seasons; The Wet and the Dry.
• The original inhabitants of the greater Darwin area are the Larrakia people.
• John Clements Wickham named the region "Port Darwin" in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin.
  
  

Where is the Northern Territory

Because of the vague nature of its name, people tend to wonder, “where is the Northern Territory”. Located in the central northern regions of Australia, the Northern Territory ( or NT ) is a federal territory of Australia. The NT shares borders with Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.

To the north, the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Despite the size of the NT—over 1,349,129km sq, the territory is sparsely populated with approx. 229,675 residents. This makes it the least populous of Australia’s eight states and territories. The majority of the Northern Territory Population reside in its capital city Darwin. Residents of the Northern Territory are often known simply as 'Territorians'.

The Northern Territory was first discovered by Europeans back in the mid 17th century. Namely the British whose first attempts at settling in the coastal regions in the 19th century failed until the establishment of Port Darwin in 1869.

Today the economy is based on tourism, especially Kakadu National Park in the Top End and the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayers Rock) in central Australia, and mining.
Although the British were the first Europeans to have laid eyes on the Northern Territory, the archeological history of the area begins over 40,000 years ago with Indigenous Australians who settled here at that time. Extensive seasonal trade links existed between them and the people of Indonesia for at least five centuries.

Where is the Northern Territory of Australia, a question no longer shrouded in mystery! This area of Australia is also where travelers can find Corroborree Billabong and the amazing array of wildlife and natural wetlands can be found.