Northern Territory

Northern Territory

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(Placename) an administrative division of N central Australia, on the Timor and Arafura Seas: includes Ashmore and Cartier Islands; the Arunta Desert lies in the east, the Macdonnell Ranges in the south, and Arnhem Land in the north (containing Australia's largest Aboriginal reservation). Capital: Darwin. Pop.: 192 880 (1999 est.). Area: 1 347 525 sq. km (520 280 sq. miles)

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Northern Territory - a territory in north central Australia Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony Darwin - provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia