Ghan or ''variation'', may refer to:
Places
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Ghan, Northern Territory
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Ghan is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin at the intersection of Lasseter Highway and Stuart Highway.
Naming
The locality’s name is given in "recognition of ...
, a locality in Australia
* Ghan towns, a name sometimes used for settlements of
Afghan cameleers in Australia
Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" () or "Ghans" (), were camel train, camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-ye ...
People
* Ghans, a name sometimes used for
Afghan cameleers in Australia
Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" () or "Ghans" (), were camel train, camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-ye ...
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Emiliano Ghan
Emiliano Michael Ghan Carranza (born 5 June 1995) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Villa Española as a midfielder.
Club career
Ghan was born in Canelones, and was a Danubio youth graduate. He made his first team debut on 21 August 201 ...
(born 1995) Uruguayan soccer player
Fictional characters
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Ghân-buri-Ghân (aka ''Ghân''), a character from J.R.R.Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''
Rail
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The Ghan
''The Ghan'' () is an experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that operates between the northern and southern coasts of Australia, through the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor ...
, an Australian passenger train service
* ''The Old Ghan'', an informal name for the former
Central Australia Railway
The former Central Australia Railway, which was built between 1878 and 1929 and dismantled in 1980, was a Narrow-gauge railway, 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Port Augusta railway station, Port Augusta and Alice Springs. A standard gau ...
*''Old Ghan'', a steam train tourist service in Australia - see
Pichi Richi Railway
Pichi Richi Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in the southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia between Quorn and Port Augusta. For much of its length the line lies in the picturesque Pichi Richi Pass, where the line was completed i ...
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Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum
The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is an Australian railway museum in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. It was attached to a narrow-gauge tourist railway line, now closed. The Road Transport Historical Society, which also owns t ...
, a railway museum in
Alice Springs
Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...
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Central Australia
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and ...
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See also
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Gahan
Gahan is a surname with several different origins. The most common origin of the name comes from "Ó Gaoithín" meaning "descendant of Gaoithín" a Leinster family who were formerly chiefs of Síol Éalaigh and today are most commonly found in ...
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Gahn
Gahn is a Swedish family from Falun, one member of which was ennobled in 1809 with the name ''Gahn af Colquhoun''. The family has claimed an unverified origin in a Scottish family Colquhoun, a claim which was confirmed 1781 in a letter by the Lord ...
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Afghan (disambiguation)
Afghan or Afgan may refer to:
Related to Afghanistan
*Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is both an ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity wise, it refers to the Pashtuns. In modern terms, it means both the citizens of Afghanist ...
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Ghani (disambiguation)
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Gan (disambiguation)
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