 Covering 1.3 million square kilometres - one-sixth of Australia - the Northern Territory is split into two regions: The Top End, including the capital Darwin; and the Red Centre, of which the frontier-style town of Alice Springs is the main centre.
Attractions easily reached from Darwin include Kakadu National Park, the Tiwi (Melville and Bathurst) Islands, Litchfiled National Park and the Daly and Adelaide rivers.
Within the vast Uluru-Kata Thuta National Park, 460 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, are many Aborginal sacred sites such as Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) and Uluru (Ayers Rock), the world's biggest monolith. This area is of vital cultural and religious significance to the Anangu people (the traditional Aboriginal owners), whose ancestors are thought to have lived in the area for at least 10,000 years.
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