Howard Spring was born in 1889 at Cardiff in Wales. He began as a journalist, but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels, the most successful of which was Fame is the Spur (1940), which has been both a major film and a BBC television series.
The capital city is Darwin; the other two sizable settlements are Alice Springs (in the desert interior, 1500km to the south) and Katherine (near the base of the Top End).
There are Aboriginal communities in many parts of the territory, the largest ones being the Pitjantjatjara near Uluru, the Arrente near Alice Springs, the Luritja between those two, the Warlpiri further north, and the Yolngu in eastern Arnhem Land.
Population centres include the capital, Darwin, nearby Palmerston and Alice Springs.
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