Darwin
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DARWIN
looms larger in the imagination than the size of its population
might warrant. Its climate, hot and dry, then hot and humid,
has always presented an enormous challenge to settlers. The
site of Australia’s worst natural disaster and of its
worst wartime disaster; it is the country’s furthest
outpost.
Darwin
is about the size of a large provincial town (population around
120 600), with all the facilities you would expect of a capital
city, such as major cultural and social institutions, great
restaurants, international hotels and a range of leisure activities.
Culturally and ethnically it is Australia’s most diverse
city. The mix includes: southern transients on northern assignments;
tourists from as far away as Europe on extended stays; Aboriginal
communities to whom the site of Darwin once belonged; the
stayers, the settlers who have lived through successive disasters
(and who have kept coming back); and the large immigrant communities,
most hailing from nearby South-East Asia and China.
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