Tennant Creek
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.Photo: Marc Dalmulder, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,950 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as: “Tennant Creek, Northern Territory” and “Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tennant Creek Airport and Kathleen Park.
Tennant Creek Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Tony Bowden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tennant Creek Airport is a small regional airport located near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Located one kilometre from the remote outback township of Tennant Creek, the airport caters to mining companies and small, predominantly Aboriginal…
Tennant Creek
- Category: locality
- Location: Barkly Region, Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-19.6482° or 19° 38′ 53″ southLongitude
134.19° or 134° 11′ 24″ eastPopulation
2,950Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)IATA airport code
TCAUnited Nations Location Code
AU TCAOpen location code
5QGP952Q+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1852930060OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2060436Wikidata ID
Q18015
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Tennant Creek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تينانت كريك”
- Asturian: “Tennant Creek”
- Basque: “Tennant Creek”
- Catalan: “Tennant Creek”
- Cebuano: “Tennant Creek”
- Chinese: “坦農特溪”
- Chinese: “滕南特克里克”
- Chinese: “車站”
- Chinese: “鄧南特溪”
- Czech: “Tennant Creek”
- Dutch: “Tennant Creek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تينانت كريك”
- French: “Tennant Creek”
- Georgian: “ტენანტ-კრიკი”
- German: “Tennant Creek”
- Hebrew: “טננט קריק”
- Irish: “Tennant Creek”
- Italian: “Tennant Creek”
- Japanese: “テナントクリーク”
- Lithuanian: “Tenant Krikas”
- Malagasy: “Tennant Creek”
- Malayalam: “ടെന്നന്റ് ക്രീക്ക്”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tennant Creek”
- Persian: “تننت کریک”
- Polish: “Tennant Creek”
- Portuguese: “Tennant Creek”
- Romanian: “Tennant Creek”
- Russian: “Теннант-Крик”
- Spanish: “Tennant Creek”
- Swedish: “Tennant Creek”
- Turkish: “Tennant Creek”
- Ukrainian: “Теннант-Крік”
- Urdu: “ٹیننٹ کریک”
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