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The history of the Northern Territory began over 60,000 years ago when Indigenous Australians settled the region. Makassan traders began trading with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory for trepang from at least the 18th century onwards. Europeans first sighted the coast of the future Territory in the 17th century.
The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first settled this region of the Sahul Continent. From at least the 18th century, Makassan traders began a relationship with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory around the trading of trepang.
Maritime history of the Northern Territory (2 C) N. Northern Territory Heritage Register (41 P) P. Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory (1 C, 9 P) T.
The Historical Society of the Northern Territory is a historical society founded in Darwin, Australia in 1964. Major objectives of the Society include (1) the study of the history of the Northern Territory of Australia; (2) encouraging the preservation of the Northern Territory's historical relics and records by their deposit with an appropriate national or local authority, but not with the ...
The Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award; this award looks for the most significant book about the Northern Territory history published in the last year. The award was established in 2004 and the three person judging panel consists of academics, historians and/or curators working in the field of Northern Territory history. [20]
The Northern Territory Aboriginals Act 1910 was an Act of the South Australian parliament (Act no. 1024/1910), assented to on 7 December 1910. The long name of the Act was "An Act to make Provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Northern Territory, and for other purposes", and it established the Northern Territory Aboriginals Department and created ...
Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote series of ruins.
The Northern Territory was split at 20° south into the territories of Central Australia and North Australia. [56] [57] 9 May 1927 Parliament began meeting in Canberra, formally moving the capital there from Melbourne. [58] [59] 12 June 1931 The territories of Central Australia and North Australia were merged to become the Northern Territory ...