Tennant Creek

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Tennant Creek is a remote outback town in Australia known for its gold mining history and location along the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf locality
town
airportIATAcode TCA
averageAnnualRainfall around 450 millimetres
averageMaximumTemperature around 32 degrees Celsius
averageMinimumTemperature around 19 degrees Celsius
climate semi-arid
country Australia
distanceToAliceSprings approximately 510 kilometres by road
distanceToDarwin approximately 990 kilometres by road
economicActivity mining
pastoralism
tourism
electoralDivisionFederal Lingiari
electoralDivisionTerritory Barkly
governingBody Barkly Regional Council
hasAirport Tennant Creek Airport
hasAttraction Battery Hill Mining Centre
Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre
hasFacility airstrip
hospital
police station
primary school
secondary school
hasRailway Adelaide–Darwin railway
historicalIndustry copper mining
gold mining
knownFor gold mining history
remote location
languageRegion Warumungu language area
localGovernmentArea Barkly Regional Council
locatedIn central Northern Territory
outback
locatedOn Stuart Highway NERFINISHED
nearbyFeature Devils Marbles
surface form: Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu)

Tennant Creek goldfields
populationCharacteristic predominantly Indigenous and non-Indigenous mix
small population
postcode 0860
region Barkly Region
roadConnection north to Katherine and Darwin via Stuart Highway
south to Alice Springs via Stuart Highway
servedBy Stuart Highway NERFINISHED
stateOrTerritory Northern Territory
timezone Australian Central Standard Time
traditionalOwners Warumungu people NERFINISHED
UTCOffset +9:30

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Devils Marbles hasNearbyTown Tennant Creek
Northern Territory hasTown Tennant Creek
Devils Marbles locatedBetween Tennant Creek