Local Government Area
Central Desert
Population
144 (2021 census)
Area
70,420.79 km²
Coordinates
-20.0244, 130.5069
Data
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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About Tanami (NT)

Tanami is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, located about 844 kilometres south of the territory capital of Darwin on the border with the state of Western Australia, in the south-west portion of the Tanami Desert. The word Tanami, believed to be an Aboriginal word whose meaning is not known, was first used by the prospector Alan Davidson in 1889 or 1890.