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Northern Territory Bitumen Strandings Progress: Report no. 1

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The discovery of bitumen on beaches and rocky points between Bathurst Island and Elcho Island dates back to at least 1922 when a Reverend Jennison found a deposit on a beach near Elcho Island Mission. This was later described by Arthur Wade in 1924 as "flat cakes filling lenticular cavities on the flaggy beds". These have since been again recorded several times between 1965 and 1984. Some people think the bitumen near the old mission is in situ whereas others have seen bitumen draped all over the wave cut platform at low tide all along the island.

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Title Northern Territory Bitumen Strandings Progress: Report no. 1
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/f80d57e8-9b06-4182-939d-98f9fa1e58fd
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Northern Territory Bitumen Strandings Progress: Report no. 1". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/northern-territory-bitumen-strandings-progress-report-no-1