Darwin, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Establishing a European settlement on Australia's remote northern shores was never going to be easy. It took four abortive attempts over a period of 45 years before DARWIN (originally called Palmerston) was surveyed in 1869 by the new South Australian state keen to exploit its recently acquired "northern territory". The early colonists' aim was to pre-empt foreign occupation and create a trading post, a "new Singapore", for the British Empire. Things got off to a promising start with the arrival in 1872 of the Overland Telegraph Line (OTL), following the route pioneered by … more »