Barkly Tableland

Barkly Tableland is a vast open region of pretty much nothing in the Northern Territory about the size of the UK but with fewer than 6,500 inhabitants.

Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tennant Creek and Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve.

Tennant Creek

Photo: Marc Dalmulder, CC BY 2.0.

Tennant Creek is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. It has a population of around 3,500. It is known as the Territory’s heart of gold mainly due to the people, but also in reference to the gold mining history.

Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve

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Devils Marbles is a reserve protecting a natural landmark in the Barkly Tableland region of the Northern Territory, located just off the Stuart Highway. With an area of 18.02 km² and established in 1961, it is located just 100km south of Tennant Creek.

Wycliffe Well

Photo: Melonheadmong, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wycliffe Well is a tiny settlement in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory in Australia. It is usually visited as a stop-over on the road between Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.

Barkly Tableland

Type: Upland
Description: grassland plain in the Northern Territory, Australia
Also known as: “Barklay Table Land”
Categories: plain and plateau
Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude of center

-19° or 19° south

Longitude of center

138° east

Elevation

247 metres (810 feet)

GeoNames ID

2077157

Wikidata ID

Q2671409

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Satellite Map

Discover Barkly Tableland from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Barkly Tableland” goes by many names.

Arabic: “سهول باركلي”
Bulgarian: “Бъркли (плато)”
Bulgarian: “Бъркли”
Cebuano: “Barkly Tableland”
Chinese: “巴克利高原”
French: “plateau de Barkly”
French: “Plateau de Barkly”
Georgian: “ბარკლი”
Georgian: “ბარკლის პლატო”
German: “Barkly Tableland”
Hebrew: “שפלת עשב-מיטשל”
Hungarian: “Barkly-táblavidék”
Italian: “Barkly”
Persian: “برکلی تیبل لند”
Persian: “برکلی تیبل‌لند”
Polish: “Barkly Tableland”
Polish: “Barkly”
Polish: “Płaskowyż Barkly”
Russian: “Баркли”
Spanish: “meseta de Barkly”
Spanish: “Meseta de Barkly”
Swedish: “Barkly Tableland”

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