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: Military installation
- Description: Earth station in Australia
- Also known as: “Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap” and “Joint Defence Space Research Facility”
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. White Gums is situated 6 km northeast of Pine Gap.
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 9 km east of Pine Gap.
Pine Gap
- Categories: ground station and listening station
- Location: MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-23.79907° or 23° 47′ 57″ southLongitude
133.72627° or 133° 43′ 35″ eastOperator
Australian Government Department of DefenceOpen location code
5Q8M6P2G+9GOpenStreetMap ID
way 267395708OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q1754535
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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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pine Gap and Kuyunba Conservation Reserve.
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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.