In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Barkly Tableland?
Barkly Tableland Barkly Tableland The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland which runs from the eastern part of the Northern Territory into western Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory, Australia and covers 283,648 km, 21% of the Northern Territory. The Barkly Tableland runs parallel to the southern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria, from about Mount Isa, Queensland to near Daly Waters. William Landsborough was the first non-Indigenous person to explore the tableland and named it after Sir Henry Barkly, then governor of Victoria. In 1877 the overlander, Nathaniel Buchanan and Sam Croker crossed
Barkly Tableland cattle grazing country in Australia. Some of the very large cattle stations located on the Tableland include Alexandria Station, Alroy Downs, Anthony Lagoon, Austral Downs, Avon Downs, Banka Banka, Brunette Downs, Creswell Downs, Eva Downs, Helen Springs, Newcastle Waters and Lake Nash Station. The region attracts more than 140,000 tourists average each year. The Barkly Tableland (MGD02) is an IBRA biogeographic subregion of an area of within the Mitchell Grass Downs IBRA region MGD. See Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia The dominant flora of the Tableland is semi-arid savanna of Mitchell grass and the area forms most of the Mitchell