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Nearly 500 kilometres, 312.5 miles from Alice Springs and around 650 kilometres, 406.2 miles from Katherine, Tennant Creek is an excellent stopover point when travelling between South Australia and the Northern Territory. For travelers between Queensland and the Northern Territory, Tennant Creek is 187 kilometres, 116.88 miles west of Barkly Homestead which is 272 kilometres, 170 miles west of Camooweal in Queensland. Tennant Creek is an old gold mining town, home to the largest open-cut gold mine in Australia up until 1985 when mining stopped.
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Tennant Creek township, in Warumungu country, population 3856 was established in the 1870s, the site chosen for a telegraph station on the Overland Telegraph Line.
The telegraph station, 12 kilometres, 7.5 miles north of Tennant Creek township, is now a museum, and so is the Tennant Creek Battery Hill, crushing ore to extract the gold.
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The Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve is approximately 104 kilometres, 65 miles south of Tennant Creek in Warumungu country. The marbles are a collection of huge, spherical, red granite boulders, scattered across a shallow valley in the Davenport Ranges, regarded by the traditional owners as the eggs of the powerful Rainbow Serpent.
Central Tennant Creek Red Centre NT - Northern Territory
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Northern Territory - Map of Tennant Creek Australia
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