We arrived in Darwin on Monday 26th March. Darwin is the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) with only a population of around 80,000. Only 1% of Australians live in the NT, but NT covers 20% of Australia’s land mass. Darwin is still somewhat of a frontier town to many Australians, and is nearer to Jakarta, than it is to its own nation’s capital, Canberra. Darwin is a very modern town due to the bombing it took in WWII and the devastating impact of cyclone Tracy on Christmas eve in 1974. Darwin was the only city in Australia to suffer prolonged attacks during the war, 64 raids over the town, totaling in the loss of 243 lives. Cyclone Tracy's wind speeds peaked at 280km, and of Darwin’s 11,200 houses, only 400 survived. We stayed in one
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