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Places

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Ghan, Northern Territory __NOTOC__ Ghan is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin City, Northern Territory, Darwin at the intersection of Lasseter Highway and Stuart Highway. Naming The locality’s na ...
, a locality in Australia * Ghan towns, a name sometimes used for settlements of
Afghan cameleers in Australia Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" ( ps, افغانان) or "Ghans" ( ps, غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of ...


People

* Ghans, a name sometimes used for
Afghan cameleers in Australia Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" ( ps, افغانان) or "Ghans" ( ps, غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of ...
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Emiliano Ghan Emiliano Michael Ghan Carranza (born 5 June 1995) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Villa Española as a midfielder. Club career Ghan was born in Canelones, and was a Danubio youth graduate. He made his first team debut on 21 August 2014 ...
(born 1995) Uruguayan soccer player


Fictional characters

* Ghân-buri-Ghân (aka ''Ghân''), a character from J.R.R.Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''


Rail

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The Ghan ''The Ghan'' is an experiential tourism oriented passenger train service that operates between the northern and southern coasts of Australia, through the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor. O ...
, an Australian passenger train service * ''The Old Ghan'', an informal name for the former
Central Australia Railway The former Central Australia Railway, which was built between 1878 and 1929 and closed in 1980, was a 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Port Augusta and Alice Springs. A standard gauge line duplicated the southern section from Port Aug ...
*''Old Ghan'', a steam train tourist service in Australia - see
Pichi Richi Railway The Pichi Richi Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in the southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia between Quorn and Port Augusta. For much of its length the line lies in the picturesque Pichi Richi Pass, where the line was complete ...
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Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is an Australian railway museum in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. It was attached to a 3 ft 6 in gauge railways, narrow-gauge tourist railway line, now closed. The Road Transport Historical S ...
, a railway museum in
Alice Springs Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' Al ...
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Central Australia Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and i ...
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See also

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Gahan Gahan (and its variant Gahame) is a surname with several different origins. One origin of the surname is from a reduced form of '' McGahan'', which is in turn an Anglicised form of the Irish language '' Mac Eacháin'', meaning "son of ''Eachá ...
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Gahn {{confused, McGahn, Gahan, Ghan (disambiguation){{!Ghan, Gan (disambiguation){{!Gan Gahn is a Swedish family, one member of which was ennobled in 1809 with the name ''Gahn af Colquhoun''. The family has claimed an unverified origin in a Scottish fam ...
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Afghan (disambiguation) Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity **Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pash ...
* Ghani (disambiguation) * Gan (disambiguation) {{dab