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Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range, or Davenport Ranges National Park (Iytwellepenty),
[ previously the Davenport Murchison National Park,][ is a ]national park
A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...
in the Northern Territory
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of Australia about south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin, occupying around s of the Davenport Range.Davenport Murchison Ranges
Davenport Murchison Ranges is an interim Australian bioregion located in the Northern Territory
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bioregion, an area of , with a climate ranging from semiarid
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to subtropical
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.tectonic
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These processes ...
event hundreds of millions of years ago, but recent images from space have shown that erosion occurred that exposed the ridges and valleys only around 100 million years ago. Amelia Creek crater
Amelia Creek crater is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, located in the Davenport Range, Northern Territory, Australia. It lies within a low range of Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic roc ...
, an ancient eroded impact crater
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lies within the Davenport Range in the area.
See also
* Protected areas of the Northern Territory
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Gallery
Image:P4150010 Old Police Station Waterhole - Iytwelepenty - Davenport Ranges National Park.jpg, Old Police Station Waterhole
Image:Old Police Station ruins at Old Police Station Waterhole - Iytwelepenty - Davenport Ranges National Park.jpg, Old Police Station ruins
References
External links
Official fact sheet and map
National parks of the Northern Territory
Protected areas established in 1993
1993 establishments in Australia
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