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An Apollonaut travel guide
A city on the harbour.
An introduction to the Darwin Waterfront, where the RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility stands at the start of Stokes Hill Wharf.
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Read the waterfront
Stokes Hill Wharf reaches out into Darwin Harbour below the city centre. Its long deck stands on rows of piles, with restaurants and a large shed along one side and boats moored below.
A guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the wharf is still a working place for cruising yachts and small vessels, and how the memorials sit among the everyday life of the deck.
The harbour
Harbour tours and cruises leave from the wharf every day, and a lit fishing platform is open around the clock.
Begin with a detail and ask who built it, who uses it and how it has changed. A photograph alone cannot tell you that.
A Flying Doctor chapter
The RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility shows one side of the waterfront: a wharf whose history includes both the raids of 1942 and the service that flies across the Territory today.
Look at the meeting of the two: the working wharf outside, and the aircraft, holograms and films that carry its stories inside.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the history of the wharf and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who run them.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
