The Northern Territory Archives Service (NTAS) is responsible for the preservation and management of Territory records, both government and non-government. The collection includes diaries, manuscripts, photographic prints and slides, scrapbooks, maps, letters, personal papers. reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, policy files, publicity material, journals, legal documents, plans, posters and oral history recordings and transcripts.
The George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens was established 130 years ago to introduce and evaluate plants for food and flavour to a small developing community and has since become important in the recreational and scientific life of the city. There are several walking tracks, a plant display house and several areas for functions, such as weddings, throughout the Gardens.
The Northern Territory Herbarium houses a reference collection of native, naturalised and cultivated plants species is provided and available for identification purposes for scientists, consultants students and interested members of the public at both Darwin and Alice Springs.
Approximately 100 years before European settlement (1788), the northern shores of Australia were visited by Monsoon traders from the eastern part of (modern day) Indonesia. Marine products such as trepang (a holothurian), turtle-shell (from the hawks-bill), pearls and timber were collected.
The gateway to library catalogue and online databases for the Northern Territory. Includes books, magazines and newspapers across the territory, in addition to extensive online information from general reference to Territory History and the Territory Images collection, and Health Information. The iPortal also includes tide times and depths, and weather information.
Within the Northern Territory, the allocation of an official name to a place (be it a locality, suburb, town, community, road, residential park, cemetery, building or natural feature) is the responsibility of the Northern Territory Government under the Place Names Act which allows the Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory to make recommendations to the Minister for Planning and Lands for the naming of a place.