Pine Creek, Northern Territory

Pine Creek
Former North Australian Railway Station
State :  Australia State : Northern Territory
Coordinates : 13 ° 49 ′  S , 131 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 49 ′  S , 131 ° 50 ′  E Area : 402.1  km²
Residents : 328 (2016) Population density : 0.8 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) LGA : Victoria Daly Region
Pine Creek

Pine Creek is a town in the Katherine area of the Northern Territory in Australia . In 2016 Pine Creek had 328 residents.

General

Pine Creek is on the Stuart Highway , the trunk road that connects Adelaide with Darwin . Several events are organized annually in Pine Creek to make the place more popular in the area. Most of them are racing or rodeo events .

history

The village was founded in 1870 during the establishment of the Trans-Australian Telegraph Line connecting Adelaide with Darwin and the overseas cable to Indonesia and Europe . After a worker found gold in 1871 while digging a hole for a mast for the line, a gold rush broke out in Australia.

Later, the place was for a time the first terminus of the North Australian Railway , which was called Palmerston & Pine Creek Railway until 1911 .

During the Second World War , the Australian Army built the 65th Australian Camp Hospital near Pine Creek. In addition, the US Army established an airfield here in 1942 for emergency landings and to supply the soldiers in Pine Creek. Unlike most locations in the Top End , Pine Creek was not bombed by Japanese planes.

Web links

Commons : Pine Creek, Northern Territory  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Report on Pine Creek in the Sydney Morning Herald (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Pine Creek (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2020.