Tourist information - Darwin
Darwin, formerly Port Darwin is a city in north-central
Australia, it is the capital and chief port of the Northern Territory,
on Clarence Strait, opposite Melville Island. The city has an excellent
harbor and is the terminus of a railroad that runs north to south;
it also has an international airport which is 6km north of the town
centre. Darwin is closer to Jakarta than it is to Sydney, and closer
to Singapore than it is to Melbourne. Asian influence is therefore
as noticeable here as Australian.
A 1486-km highway runs from Darwin south to Alice
Springs and Adelaide. Northern Territory University (1989) is in
a suburb of Darwin. Darwin also serves as a gateway to Kakadu National
Park, which lies 247 km to the east. Darwin was founded in 1869
as Palmerston and renamed Darwin in 1911.
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