{"id":21,"date":"2016-09-10T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2018-06-16T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T05:39:37","slug":"facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Territory Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northern Territory covers about one sixth of the Australian continent with an area of 1.35 million km2 which is equal to the combined areas of France, Spain and Italy. About four- fifths of the Territory (1.09 million km2) lies within the tropics and the 6200 km coastline is generally flat and backed by swamps, mangroves and mudflats, rising to a plateau no higher than 450 m.<\/p>

In central Australia, the Territory is crossed by the east-west ridges of the Macdonnell Ranges, which reach heights of more than 600 m. The well-known monolith, Uluru (Ayers Rock), 348 m high, is near the south-west corner of the Territory.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Northern Territory covers about one sixth of the Australian continent with an area of 1.35 million km2 which is equal to the combined areas of France, Spain and Italy. About four- fifths of the Territory (1.09 million km2) lies within the tropics and the 6200 km coastline is generally flat and backed by swamps, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-ag-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}