R19 NT Tennant Creek to Mataranka
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Last edit: 15-04-2021
Route Summary
The 19th route of THE tour through Australia, you can start or end this tour in any larger city, such as Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth & Sydney. It will take you a while to get to Australia, but the long journey to this beautiful country will definitely be rewarded. In Australia you can go great motorcycling. Australia is very large; 8 million km2, which is more than 226 times larger than the Netherlands! Has a diversity of flora and fauna; the most diverse types of plants, trees and animals, especially birds and a lot of typical Australian marsupials, which you will not find anywhere else in the world!
Enjoy all the beauty immensely: From the evergreen tropical rainforests, to the vast Outback; from the desert to the countless and peaceful idyllic palm beaches; from the winter sports areas in the southeast to the vibrant and impressive metropolis of Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.
You will see it all and experience it in this amazing tour through Australia, a tour to remember!
Starting point: Tennant Creek, Goldfields Hotel
End point: Mataranka, Homestead Tourist Resort
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Duration
7h 45m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
579.31 km
Countries
Stuart Highway
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This route takes you via the Stuart Highway to Mataranka, to the Homestead Tourist Resort. At the resort, a range of accommodations are available to suit every person and budget. The location is unrivaled in this area with all facilities and the thermal baths all within a few minutes walk. Nightly entertainment in high season makes the Mataranka Homestead a "MUST DO" if you are in the area. Mataranka is a city located approximately 420 km (260 miles) southeast of the capital of Darwin and 107 km (66 miles) south of Katherine. At the 2016 census, Mataranka registered a population of 350.29.5% of the inhabitants are Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander.
The city is located near the Roper river and the hot springs of Mataranka. This area is the setting for Jeannie Gunn's autobiographical account of the year 1902, We of the Never Never. The home, which she shared with her husband, Aeneas Gunn, until his death, has been rebuilt near the hot springs.
The name Mataranka means "house of the snake" in the Yangmanic language of the Aboriginal people who inhabit the area.
This route also goes through the outback, these are the regions that are far from civilization. The outback covers nearly three-quarters of Australia and extends mainly across the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and parts of the states of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
The term outback includes various landscapes and climatic zones. Large parts of the outback in Western Australia are inaccessible: sometimes there is no rain here in years, while in summer the temperature rises above 50 ° C. The Queensland outback, on the other hand, consists partly of tropical rainforest.
The characteristics of the outback are:
- Only a few paved roads are present. Farms (stations) are often located on sandy paths that can only be driven with off-road vehicles. It is no exception when a farm is 80 kilometers from the paved road.
- Farms are self-catering. It is no problem if a supermarket cannot be visited for weeks.
- Settlements with several houses, a gas station, a supermarket, a garage, a bank and catering facilities are hundreds of kilometers apart.
- Children receive remote education via radio (School of the Air) and the Internet.
- In the event of serious illness and accident, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is called upon.
Camels were imported from the Middle East in 1870. They live partly on farms, partly in the wild.
- Of the approximately 300,000 Aborigines (approximately 1.5% of Australia's total population), approximately 20% live in the outback, most of them in reservations.
This 4-star rated route, all over the Stuart Highway, makes another day of miles so to speak. Take your time at the various stops along the way to refuel, eat or drink. And of course to take some pictures.
General info:
The Northern Territory consists of the originally northern part of the state of South Australia. However, this is again contested by the state of Western Australia, as the heir to New Holland. It is now an area with limited self-government, has an area of 1,349,129 km² and a quarter of a million inhabitants. The population density is extremely low with one inhabitant on five square kilometers. The capital is Darwin, the northernmost city in the country.
The Territory, has the image of a large nature reserve and the few inhabitants like to describe themselves as tough, hardy nature people. Two of the most visited natural areas in Australia are located in the Northern Territory: the tropical Kakadu National Park in the north and the world-famous Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park in the south (Uluṟu used to be known as Ayers Rock). The province is also home to the wonderful Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve.
Most of the Simpson Desert is in the southeast corner, while the Tanami Desert is in the west. The MacDonnell Mountains extend east and west from Alice Springs. Arnhemland, a large area belonging to the Aboriginal population, is located to the north of the territory, and the Barkly Plateau to the northeast.
The entire Northern Territory has only two cities: Darwin and Palmerston. Other places include Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek, and Jabiru.
The Northern Territory is home to only 1% of Australia's total population, more than half of whom live in the capital, Darwin. 32.5% of these are Aborigines.
Daly Waters Pub
Mataranka Homestead Tourist Resort
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