Tennant Creek Tourist Information
Tennant Creek Tourist Information
Welcome to the town of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
The Heritage Walk is an excellent way to experience the town. If you follow the historic plaques, you'll learn all about Tennant, its history, stories of hijacked gold, gambling, early picture theatres, churches and much more. The Tuxworth-Fullwood Museum was built by the army in 1942 as the old army camp hospital. Today it houses the old jailhouse; a reconstruction of a miner's camp and mine workings; old Furphy water cart; the town's archive collection and early photographs of the town and its people. Some of the region's early pioneers are still living in the town.
Anzac Hill (Lions Lookout) and the avenue of the stars Celebrity Walk with handprints of famous people who have passed through the town are well worth visiting. The Church of Christ The King was known as the longest church in Australia because trucks transporting it from Pine Creek in 1936 were spread out all along the highway. Originally built at Pine Creek in 1904, it is now classified as a Historic Building by the National Trust.
The old Australian Inland Mission building in the main street was built in 1934 and is one of the few surviving examples of early, prefabricated corrugated iron buildings of Sydney Williams construction. In the heart of Tennant you'll see the Jurnkurakurr mural, depicting the dreaming and the country of the Warumungu men and women, which was painted by Aboriginal people as a Community Arts Mural Project. Many murals can be seen around the town.
