was completed, with the opening of the Alice Springs-Darwin standard gauge line.

A 2003 saltwater crocodile attack south of the city was the inspiration for the 2007 film Black Water.

Aviation history

Darwin hosted many of aviation's early pioneers. On 10 December 1919, Captain Ross Smith and his crew landed in Darwin and won a £10,000 prize from the Australian government for completing the first flight from London to

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