Pine Gap
Pine Gap is a joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately 18 km south-west of the town of Alice Springs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Skyring, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 589 metres
- Description: Earth station in Australia
- Also known as: “Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap” and “Joint Defence Space Research Facility”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kuyunba Conservation Reserve.
Kuyunba Conservation Reserve
Nature reserve
Kuyunba Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located approximately 15 kilometres south west of Alice Springs and 1,520 kilometres south of Darwin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White Gums and Arumbera.
White Gums
Suburb
White Gums is an outer suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is on the traditional Country of the Arrernte people.
Arumbera
Suburb
Arumbera is an outer suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is on the traditional Country of the Arrernte people. Arumbera is situated 8 km northeast of Pine Gap.
Pine Gap
- Categories: ground station, listening station, and landform
- Location: MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-23.80688° or 23° 48′ 25″ southLongitude
133.74084° or 133° 44′ 27″ eastElevation
589 metres (1,932 feet)Open location code
5Q8M5PVR+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 3068360636OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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Satellite Map
Discover Pine Gap from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pine Gap” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باين غاب”
- Cebuano: “Pine Gap”
- Chinese: “松树谷”
- Chinese: “松樹谷”
- Czech: “Pine Gap”
- Dutch: “Pine Gap”
- Finnish: “Pine Gap”
- French: “Pine Gap”
- German: “Pine Gap”
- Hebrew: “פיין גאפ”
- Italian: “Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap”
- Italian: “Pine Gap”
- Japanese: “パインギャップ”
- Korean: “파인 갭”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pine Gap”
- Norwegian: “Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap”
- Persian: “پاین گپ”
- Polish: “Pine Gap”
- Russian: “Pine Gap”
- Sinhala: “පයින් ගැප්”
- Slovak: “Pine Gap”
- Spanish: “Pine Gap”
- Swedish: “Pine Gap”
- Ukrainian: “Пайн Геп”
- “Pine Gap”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pine Gap”. Photo: Skyring, CC BY-SA 3.0.