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Mary River National Park

national park in the Northern Territory, Australia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1320619 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mary River National Park is an Australian national park located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east and stretching to the southeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Wildlife

The national park is inhabited by several bird species and saltwater crocodiles.

See also

Protected areas of the Northern Territory

Wildman River Wilderness Work Camp

References

External links

Mary River National Park – Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport; Northern Territory Government. Accessed on 10 May 2012.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mary River National Park” is national park in the Northern Territory, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mary, River and National, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2007, 2002-01-01, 2012-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Mary, River and National is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “national park in the Northern Territory, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1320619. Authority coordinates are -12.133, 131.286. 4 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mary River National Park”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mary River National Park primary sources, Mary River National Park archive and Mary research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mary River National Park”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mary River National Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.