Tennant Creek

Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway. Tennant Creek is approximately 1000 kilometres south of the territory capital, Darwin, and 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs. The town is named after a nearby watercourse of the same name. The population of the town is approximately 3,500 people, of which around 2,000 are Aboriginal. In 1860 John McDouall Stuart named a waterway Tennant Creek after John Tennant, a pastoralist from Port Lincoln, South Australia, in gratitude for the financial help Tennant had provided for Stuart's expeditions across Australia.