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Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia. The term Central Australia is used to describe an area centred on Alice Springs. It is sometimes referred to as Centralia; likewise the people of the area are sometimes called Centralians. The region is located in the southern part of the Northern Territory spanning from the west on the Western Australian Border to the east on the Queensland border.
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  • 1. The Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park Alice Springs
    The protected areas of the Northern Territory consists of protected areas managed by the governments of the Northern Territory and Australia and private organisations with a reported total area of 335,527 square kilometres being 24.8% of the total area of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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  • 2. Chambers Pillar Alice Springs
    Chambers Pillar is a sandstone formation some 160 km south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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  • 4. Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve Alice Springs
    Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. Henbury craters are a result of one of the few impact events that have occurred in a populated area .
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  • 5. Redbank Gorge West Macdonnell National Park
    Redbank Gorge , is a gorge located in the Northern Territory of Australia, 156 km west of Alice Springs. It is situated at the bottom of Mount Sonder. The gorge is part of the West MacDonnell National Park, which has an area of approximately 2,568 square kilometres .
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  • 6. Uluru Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park
    Uluru , also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies 335 km south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, 450 km by road. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Uluru and Kata Tjuta, also known as the Olgas, are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
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  • 7. Kata Tjuta Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park
    Kata Tjuṯa, , also known as the Olgas, is a group of large, domed rock formations or bornhardts located about 360 km southwest of Alice Springs, in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, located 25 km to the east, and Kata Tjuta form the two major landmarks within the Uluru-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. The park is considered sacred to the Aboriginal people of Australia.The 36 domes that make up Kata Tjuṯa cover an area of 21.68 km2 , are composed of conglomerate, a sedimentary rock consisting of cobbles and boulders of varying rock types including granite and basalt, cemented by a matrix of sandstone. The highest dome, Mount Olga, is 1,066 m above sea level, or approximately 546 m above the surrounding plain . Kata Tjuta is locat...
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  • 8. Karlu Karlu-Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve Wauchope Northern Territory
    Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve is a protected area located 105 km south of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia and 393 km north of Alice Springs. The nearest settlement is the small town of Wauchope located 9 km to the south.The Devils Marbles are of great cultural and spiritual significance to the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land, and the reserve protects one of the oldest religious sites in the world as well as the natural rock formations found there. Karlu Karlu is the local Aboriginal term for both the rock features and the surrounding area. The Aboriginal term translates as round boulders and refers to the large boulders found mainly in the western side of the reserve. The origin of the English name for the same boulders is the following quote: Thi...
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