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Northern Territory 40,000,000 99,000,000 0 0 0 29 November 1968 1968 Blue Mountains Bushfire New South Wales 4 approx. 120: 0 [citation needed] 8 January 1969 1969 bushfires Victoria 23 230 0 [13] 1969 – 70 1969-70 Dry River-Victoria River fire Northern Territory 45,000,000 110,000,000 0 0 0 [22] 1974 – 1975 summer fire season
Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service, or NTFRS, (in conjunction with Bushfires NT [1]) is the primary provider of fire and rescue services throughout the 1.35 million square km Northern Territory of Australia. It is made up of 27 fire stations, 16 being staffed by volunteer brigade units, 5 being staffed 24 hours a day by career fire ...
According to Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters), fire is one of the most important forces at work in the Australian environment.Some plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms to survive or even require bushfires (possessing epicormic shoots or lignotubers that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds), or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in ...
The Moolah-Corinya fire was "the largest fire ever contained by man in New South Wales without the help of the weather." It burned 1.166 million hectares (2.88 million acres) and its perimeter was over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi). [10] Northern Territory. Area burned: 45 million hectares (110 million acres).
The 2023–24 Australian bushfire season [a] was the summer season of bushfires in Australia.The spring and summer outlook for the season prediction was for increased risk of fire for regions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Tjoritja / West MacDonnell is a national park in the Northern Territory due west of Alice Springs and 1234 km south of Darwin. [2] It extends along the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs. The popular extended walk, the Larapinta Trail, runs east–west along the linear park, following the West MacDonnell Ranges.
The Northern Territory is the most sparsely populated state or territory in Australia. The NT has a connected network of sealed roads, including two national highways, linking with adjoining states and connecting the major territory population centres, and other important centres such as Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks.
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