Northern Territory

noun

1. a territory in N Australia. 523,620 sq. mi. (1,356,175 sq. km). : Darwin.

Northern Territory

noun

1. an administrative division of N central Australia, on the Timor and Arafura Seas: the Arunta Desert lies in the east, the Macdonnell Ranges in the south, and Arnhem Land in the north (containing Australia's largest Aboriginal reservation); the Ashmore and Cartier Islands constitute a separate Australian External Territory. Capital: Darwin. Pop: 198 700 (2003 est). Area: 1 347 525 sq km (520 280 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Cannon-Brookes is backing the Sun Cable, a massive solar farm planned for the country’s sun-drenched Northern Territory, which has ambitions to send power to Singapore via a long undersea cable.

From Time

Forrest and tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes have invested in the Sun Cable, an ambitious plan to construct one of the world’s largest solar farms in Australia’s Northern Territory, which would send power to Southeast Asia via an undersea cable.

From Time

In Australia’s Northern Territory, a gold miner became infected at a quarantine hotel, then took a charter flight back to the mine.

From Popular-Science

Occasionally they came upon a deserted Indian camp, but in this northern territory they found few roving tribes.

From Project Gutenberg

They could go into hiding for a while—make for Queensland and then go into the northern territory.

From Project Gutenberg

The total area of the northern territory of South Australia is 523,620 square miles.

From Project Gutenberg

I was told that at the time of our visit there were only two genuine squatters in the whole northern territory.

From Project Gutenberg

If the Northern territory is ever to be rendered habitable, it must be by Queensland that the work is done.

From Project Gutenberg