Rabbit Flat, Northern Territory

Rabbit Flat, Northern Territory

Rabbit Flat is a location in the Northern Territory of Australia about 160 km from the Western Australia border.cite web |url=http://www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/RedCtr/The_Tanami_Track.aspx |title=The Tanami Track |publisher=ExplorOz |accessdate=2008-03-07]

Roadhouse

The Rabbit Flat Roadhouse is claimed to be the most isolated roadhouse in Australia, with no other roadhouses within 100 km.cite web |url=http://www.exploroz.com/Places/7685/NT/Rabbit_Flat_Roadhouse.aspx |title=Rabbit Flat Roadhouse |publisher=ExplorOz |accessdate=2008-03-07] This roadhouse sells fuel, has some food and supplies and has some camping facilities.

It is located about 2 km from the Tanami Road formerly known as the Tanami Track which runs from Alice Springs in central Australia northwest to Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Weather station

The Roadhouse manager maintains the weather station at Rabbit Flat, the closest climatic station being at Balgo Hills, a small Aboriginal community 211.59 km West, and the airstrip is .87 km away being the only thing within five km.

Tanami Road

Also known as the Tanami Track and simply, the Tanami, is a dirt road used by road trains servicing the Tanami and Granites gold mines. It is one of the great desert roads in the Northern Territory.

The Flat is located between two mines each more than 50 km away on the Tanami, and similarly, there are distant hills.

Climate

The track is impassable during the wet season from December to January when the mean rainfall at Rabbit Flat weather station was 85.8 mm in February compared with 2.5 mm in August, the last month of winter in Australia, when the temperature can be 11°.

References

Map reference

* Westprint Heritage Maps.(2002) "Tanami Track": Alice Springs, The Granites, Rabbit Flat, Billiluna, Halls Creek / compiled by John Deckert ; cartographic design and production by Flat Earth Mapping. 3rd ed. Scale 1:1,000,000 (E 127°20’ -- E 134°00’/S 17°25’ --S 24°00’) Nhill, Vic. : Westprint Heritage Maps. ISBN 9781875608119 also known as "Westprint Heritage Maps for modern explorers".


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