Wycliffe Well - NT

  Tourist Attraction

Position

DEG: -20.795349 134.236649
DMS: 20º 47' 43.26" S 134º 14' 11.93" E
UTM: 53 K 7700313mN 420556mE
Altitude: 358.98m

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Address & Contact

Davenport NT 0872
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Information

****2023**** Closed indefinitely****
No fuel, no camping. Visitors can stop and take a peek but the whole place is closed.
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History:
Wycliffe Well began as a watering point along the stock route for the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1860s. World War II saw Wycliffe Well become a market garden centre to service troops, and at the end of the war, two soldiers stayed on to continue selling vegetables and garden products to Alice Springs. In 1960, a petrol pump was installed in Wycliffe Well.

Nowadays the facilities here encompass a roadhouse, motel, caravan park and an array of whimsical Australiana & alien themed installations. Leu Farkas has spent almost 3 million dollars renovating and expanding Wycliffe Well to make it much more than just a roadhouse, more like a family leisure park. For instance; there is the Barramundi pond, a train track complete with a train that resembles Puffing Billy, a lookout tower for spotting UFOs, an Incredible Hulk style letter box which won the Burke's Backyard letter box competition, the Phantom to show you the way to the toilet and an open air auditorium designed to fit 300 people. There are kangaroos, emus, peacocks, murals on every wall you can see, over 30 caravan sites, furnished rooms and a lake which when finished will be used for canoeing and boating and of course, the UFO sightings. Wycliffe Well is known as the UFO capital of the NT.
Wycliffe Well is essentially made up of Wycliffe Well Holiday Park out the back and the Roadhouse (with pub boasting the largest range of beer in the NT, and United fuel) at the front.
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Closest Weather Station

Tennant Creek at 29/12:30am CST
Distance from Wycliffe Well 128.25km N
TemperatureFeels LikeRel. HumidityDew PointPressureRainfallWind DirectionWind SpeedGusts
25.5°C26.9°C73%20.3°C1012.8hPa0.0mmSE13km/hr
7knots
19km/hr
10knots

Closest Climatic Station

Ali Curung
Distance from Wycliffe Well 28.77km SE
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C37.936.835.432.227.424.124.326.932.235.136.637.8
Mean Min. °C23.823.320.916.612.08.37.49.114.818.621.223.1
Mean Rain mm77.498.332.319.119.15.75.33.79.822.130.762.5

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