Mount Zeil, Northern Territory
Suburb of MacDonnell Region, the Northern Territory, Australia
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Mount Zeil is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 1,248 kilometres (775 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin.[1][2]
Mount Zeil | |||||||||||||
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  Mount Zeil | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 23°16′56″S 132°21′43″E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Northern Territory | ||||||||||||
| LGA | |||||||||||||
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| Established | 4 April 2007[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 6,692 km2 (2,584 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 83 (2016 census)[6] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.01240/km2 (0.03212/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 0872[2] | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 28.9 °C (84.0 °F)[7] | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 13.3 °C (55.9 °F)[7] | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 282.8 mm (11.13 in)[7] | ||||||||||||
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| Adjoining localities[8][9] | |||||||||||||
The locality consists of the following land:[10][9]
- The Derwent pastoral lease in the north-west
- The Narwietooma pastoral lease in the north-east
- The Glen Helen pastoral lease in the south-west, and
- The north-west part of the West MacDonnell National Park in the south-east.
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the mountain of the same name which is located within its boundaries.[1] As of 2020, it has an area of 6,692 square kilometres (2,584 sq mi).[5]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Zeil had 83 people living within its boundaries.[6]
Mount Zeil is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.[4][3][8]
UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)
On an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Harold E. Puthoff referred to a CIA program called Stargate Project, that identified Mount Zeil as the location of a "Secret alien base"
It can also be noted that Mount Zeil is in the same region as Pine Gap, a Joint Defence Space Research Facility. The station is jointly run by the Australian Defence Force (Australian Signals Directorate), the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), US National Security Agency (NSA), and US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) .
Wycliff Well is also in this region.
