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5 things you didn’t know you could do in the NT
There’s more to the Top End than you think. Picture: Tourism NT. Source: Supplied
THE vast yet beautiful Northern Territory drew more local and international travellers this year than any of the past five.
The National Visitor Survey showed 1.34 million visitors ticked the Territory off their bucket lists, a 14 per cent increase. So what makes this region so special?
Apart from the obvious…
2005: The Ooraminna Anticline seen from 35,000 feet. The wells, Ooraminna-1 and Ooramina-2, found gas but not enough it. Both capped and abandoned.
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2005: Flightpath returning to the UK from Sydney took the 747-800 over some spectacular folding and structures in sediments of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia, particularly the Allambarinja Range. Stratigraphic units from the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database.
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2022: The West MacDonnell Ranges, as photographed with new Mavic 2 Pro drone from Honeymoon Gap. Strike ridges of Heavitree Quartzite (~800Ma) delineate the east-west orientation of the range. They are overlain by the madly-folded formations of the Bitter Springs Group. The ranges were uplifted as part of the Alice Springs Orogeny (500Ma to 300Ma), which was unusual in that it occurred mid-continent as opposed to on a plate boundary.
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Leucogranite
Pleasant to look at outcrop along the road in Alice Springs. A leucogranite (white/bright granite) dykes intruded along foliation plane of the gneiss.
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