Tennant Creek distances and driving times

Tennant Creek distances and driving times

Several Australian road trips pass through Tennant Creek. Distances and driving times for this Northern Territory town are listed here.

Tennant Creek is not exactly the most appealing spot in the Northern Territory. But if you’re going from the Top End to the Red Centre – or vice versa – you’re going to pass through as part of the road trip.

Australia Travel Questions is busy putting together road trip guides to the Northern Territory, including those that start and end in Tennant Creek.

Distances and driving times to Tennant Creek are listed below. Click through on the links for further detail about the road trip.

The distances and driving times are approximate, put together using Google Maps. Obviously, if you build a few road trip stops into the drive, that journey will take longer.

Tennant Creek road trips

Alice Springs to Tennant Creek: Distance 508km, driving time 5h08m.

Brisbane to Tennant Creek: Distance 2,485km, driving time 27h. (More Brisbane road trips).

Longreach to Tennant Creek: Distance 1,307km, driving time 13h54m. (More driving times from Longreach).

Mount Isa to Tennant Creek: Distance 661km, driving time 6h47m. (More Mount Isa driving times).

Tennant Creek to Daly Waters: Distance 407km, driving time 4h13m.

Tennant Creek to Darwin: Distance 989km, driving time 10h20m. (More Darwin road trips).

Tennant Creek to Katherine: Distance 675km, driving time 6h58m. (More Katherine driving times).

Tennant Creek to Uluru: Distance 975km, driving time 9h54m. (More Uluru driving times).

Tour of the Battery Creek Mining Centre in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Tour of the Battery Creek Mining Centre in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Photo courtesy of Tourism NT/Karl-Heinz Herzog.

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