__NOTOC__ Mount Zeil is a locality in the

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located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land: #The Derwent pastoral lease in the north-west #The Narwietooma pastoral lease in the north-east #The Glen Helen pastoral lease in the south-west, and #The north-west part of the

West MacDonnell National Park Tjoritja / West MacDonnell is a national park in the Northern Territory (Australia) due west of Alice Springs and 1234 km south of Darwin. It extends along the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs. The popular extended walk, the Larap ...

in the south-east. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the mountain of the same name which is located within its boundaries. As of 2020, it has an area of . The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Zeil had 83 people living within its boundaries. Mount Zeil is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and the local government area of the

MacDonnell Region The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018. Geography MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the sou ...

UAP ( Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)

On an episode of the

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, Harold E. Puthoff referred to a CIA program called Stargate Project, that identified Mount Zeil as the location of a "Secret alien base" It can also be noted that Mount Zeil is in the same region as

Pine Gap Pine Gap is a joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately south-west of the town of Alice Springs. It is jointly operated by Australia and ...

, a Joint Defence Space Research Facility. The station is jointly run by the Australian Defence Force (

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), the

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(CIA), US

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(NSA), and US

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(NRO) . Wycliff Well is also in this region.

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{{Localities and communities of the MacDonnell Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory MacDonnell Region