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Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range, or Davenport Ranges National Park (Iytwellepenty),
[ previously the Davenport Murchison National Park,][ is a ]national park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
in the 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 Aust ...
about south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin, occupying around s of the Davenport Range.Davenport Murchison Ranges
Davenport Murchison Ranges is an interim Australian bioregion located in the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central ...
bioregion, an area of , with a climate ranging from semiarid
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-ar ...
to subtropical
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.tectonic
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event hundreds of millions of years ago, but recent images from space have shown that erosion occurred that exposed the ridges and valleys only around 100 million years ago. Amelia Creek crater
Amelia Creek crater is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, located in the Davenport Range, Northern Territory, Australia. It lies within a low range of Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic roc ...
, an ancient eroded impact crater
An impact crater is a circular depression in the surface of a solid astronomical object formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse, impact craters ...
lies within the Davenport Range in the area.
See also
* Protected areas of the Northern Territory
The protected areas of the Northern Territory consists of protected areas managed by the governments of the Northern Territory and Australia and private organisations with a reported total area of being 24.8% of the total area of the Northern Te ...
Gallery
Image:P4150010 Old Police Station Waterhole - Iytwelepenty - Davenport Ranges National Park.jpg, Old Police Station Waterhole
Image:Old Police Station ruins at Old Police Station Waterhole - Iytwelepenty - Davenport Ranges National Park.jpg, Old Police Station ruins
References
External links
Official fact sheet and map
National parks of the Northern Territory
Protected areas established in 1993
1993 establishments in Australia
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