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Middle Arm, Northern Territory
Middle Arm is a coastal peninsula of Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 13 kilometres south of Darwin City. It is the traditional land and waterways of the Larrakia people. Middle Arm includes Wickham Point, Bladin Point, Channel Island and the nearby locality of Wickham. History Middle Arm has been a significant cultural and fishing site for Larrakia people for thousands of years, evidenced by shell middens and rock art still remaining in the area. Its colonial name Middle Arm first appeared on George Goyder's 1869 plan of the harbour. It was the site of the Channel Island Leprosarium, now a heritage listed place. During World War II, Middle Arm was the location of a secret training base for Timorese and Australian personnel. It was also the location of the former Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre which closed in 2019. Environment Middle Arm is the largest sub-estuary of Darwin Harbour's southern region and features intertwining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin Harbour
Darwin Harbour is the body of water close to Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It opens to the north at a line from Charles Point in the west to Lee Point in the east into the Beagle Gulf and connects via the Clarence Strait with the Van Diemen Gulf.N Smit, R Billyard and L Ferns: Beagle Gulf Benthic Survey: Characterisation of soft substrates.'' Technical Report No. 66 (2000), Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. It contains Port Darwin, which is flanked by Frances Bay to the east and Cullen Bay to the west. Name Darwin Harbour was named after the naturalist Charles Darwin, who sailed with captain Robert Fitzroy on the second expedition of the ''Beagle'' (December 1831 – October 1836) which visited parts of Australia. During the voyage, he became a friend of the officers, including John Lort Stokes and John Clements Wickham who were promoted for the next voyage of the ship. Lieutenant Stokes was apparently the first British person to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inpex
INPEX (Invention and New Product Exposition) is America's largest invention trade show, held since 1985 and organized by the invention promotion firm InventHelp. The annual show is held each June in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. INPEX provides a forum for inventors to exhibit their inventions and pitch their ideas with companies interested in licensing, marketing or manufacturing their new products. This trade show also hosts contests for domestic and international inventors (45 different categories), as well as seminars and workshops for both inventors and business attendees within the George Foreman Inventors University. The annual sponsor and producer of INPEX, InventHelp, markets promotional services to amateur inventors. Inventions at INPEX range from simple products to highly technical devices that can be displayed as models or prototypes or as a finished product for the mass market. History INPEX has always been held in Pittsburgh. The first trade show took place in 1982. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Lawler
Eva Dina Lawler is an Australian politician. She is a Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch), Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016, representing the electorate of Electoral division of Drysdale, Drysdale. She was Minister for Education (Northern Territory), Minister for Education in the Gunner Ministry from September 2016 until June 2018, when she was made Minister for Environment and Natural Resources and Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics. Early life and career Lawler was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. She and her family were evacuated after Cyclone Tracy but returned to Darwin. Lawler completed a Bachelor of Education at the then Darwin Community College. She taught at Berry Springs Primary School, Gray Primary School and Humpty Doo Primary School. She was promoted to assistant principal, working at Anula Primary School and then Principal at Jingili Primary School. Eva also worked for the Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetaloo Basin
Beetaloo is the name of a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory, known as Beetaloo Station. It is also the name of an area in the Sturt Plateau, known as the Beetaloo Sub-Basin or Beetaloo Basin, around south-east of Darwin, between Mataranka to the north and Elliott to the south. This area is rich in natural gas, which can be exploited by fracking, which has caused controversy. Beetaloo Station Beetaloo Station is situated about north east of Elliott and south west of Borroloola. The property is surrounded by other pastoral leases including Hayfield, Amungee Mungee and Tanumbirini Stations to the north, Hayfield and Newcastle Waters Station to the west, Tandyidgee, Ucharonidge and Mungabroom to the south and the Mambilya-Rrumburriya Aboriginal Land Trust to the east. The Carpentaria Highway crosses the property through the north east corner and the Newcastle Creek flows through a good portion of the lease from east to west. The pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbon Capture And Storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia. Usually the CO2 is captured from large point sources, such as a chemical plant or biomass power plant, and then stored in an underground geological formation. The aim is to prevent the release of CO2 from heavy industry with the intent of mitigating the effects of climate change. CO2 has been injected into geological formations for several decades for enhanced oil recovery and after separation from natural gas, but this has been criticised for producing more emissions when the gas or oil is burned. Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) and CCS are sometimes discussed collectively as carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS). This is because CCS is a relatively expensive process yielding a product which is often too cheap. Hence, car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henderson (politician)
Paul Raymond Henderson (born 15 August 1962) is a former Australian politician who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2007 to 2012. He has been Chancellor of Charles Darwin University since March 2019. Background and early career Henderson was born in Croix-Chapeau, France, where his father was serving with the United States military. He was educated in the United Kingdom to A-Levels and studied mechanical engineering through the City and Guilds of London Institute. He worked as an apprentice marine fitter in Southampton before emigrating to Australia in 1982, where he worked as an underground fitter at the zinc mines in Rosebery, Tasmania. He moved to Darwin in the Northern Territory in 1983, working as a marine fitter. In 1985 he began working for the Northern Territory government as a computer operator, was self-employed as a computer analyst in Britain from 1991 to 1992 and returned to work for the Northern Territory government in 1993. Political career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weddell Power Station
Weddell Power Station is a 129 MW natural gas-fired power station in the Northern Territory, located at Wickham, south-east of the Territory capital Darwin. Owned and operated by Territory Generation, it is the second largest power station in the Territory and supplies the Darwin-Katherine Interconnected System. History Construction began in 2007 and the station was commissioned by the Power and Water Corporation in 2008, initially with two General Electric LM6000PD gas turbines, brought online in 2008 and 2009 respectively, providing an installed capacity of 86 MW. At the time of commissioning, these generators were the largest single units in the Darwin-Katherine power network, with each delivering approximately 10% of the total capacity. The facility is connected to the privately operated Wickham Point Pipeline, completed in July 2009. This allows the generators to be fed by both offshore projects via the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas Plant, or through the existing pipelin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santos Limited
Santos Ltd. (South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search) is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company, with its headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia. It owns liquefied natural gas (LNG), pipeline gas, and oil assets. It is the biggest supplier of natural gas in Australia, with its plants in the Cooper Basin in South Australia and South West Queensland supplying the eastern states of Australia. Its operations also extend to the seas off Western Australia and Northern Territory. The company has been criticised by environmentalists and others for its high level of greenhouse gas emissions, its lobbying of political parties, and various incidents causing contamination. Santos provides sponsorship of several arts festivals and bodies, charities, and the University of Adelaide's Australian School of Petroleum. History Santos was incorporated on 18 March 1954, with its name an acronym of South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search. Its core business was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmore River
Blackmore River flows into Darwin Harbour close to Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.N Smit, R Billyard and L Ferns: Beagle Gulf Benthic Survey: Characterisation of soft substrates.'' Technical Report No. 66 (2000), Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. Course The headwaters of the river rise at an elevation of on the Wild Horse Plain and flow northwards past Tumbling Waters and through the Blackmore River Conservation Reserve. The river discharges into Darwin Harbour. The Elizabeth River and Blackmore River catchments together occupy an area of , with the Blackmore catchment occupying . The estuary An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ... formed at the river mouth is tidal in nature and in near pristine condition. Climate The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory Of Australia
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre
Wickham may refer to: Places Australia * Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle * Wickham, Northern Territory, a locality * Wickham, Western Australia, a town * Wickham River, an ephemeral river in the Northern Territory Canada * Wickham Parish, New Brunswick ** Wickham, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community therein * Wickham, Quebec England * Wickham, Berkshire * Wickham, Hampshire * Wickham Bishops, Essex * Wickham Market, Suffolk * Wickham Skeith, Suffolk * Wickham St. Paul, Essex * East Wickham, south-east London * West Wickham, Cambridgeshire * West Wickham, south-east London Other Places * Wickham, West Virginia, in Raleigh County, U.S. * Wickham, Hampshire County, West Virginia * Wickham Island (other) People Characters * Bobbie Wickham, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories * George Wickham, principal villain in Jane Austen's 1813 novel ''Pride and Prejudice'' * William Wickham, recurring character of '' Poldark'' fifth season Given name * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel Island Leprosarium
The Channel Island Leprosarium was a quarantine station that operated as a colony for people suffering from leprosy in the Northern Territory of Australia from 1931 to 1955. Channel Island The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ... forms part of Middle Arm, located just south of Darwin. History The Channel Island Leprosarium was opened in 1931 replacing the Mud Island Lazaret. Sisters from the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart took over the health service in 1947. An increase in leprosy cases in the 1950s led to overcrowding and the facility was closed in 1955. It was replaced by The East Arm Leprosarium on the mainland. Patients were compulsorily isolated, were often treated poorly and were cut off from their families. The site was heritage listed in Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
