The administration of the Northern Territory (NT) was transferred from New South Wales (NSW) to South Australia (SA) in 1863, just after John McDouall Stuart's successful fifth expedition in which he crossed the Australian continent from Adelaide in the South, to reach the north coast, near present-day Darwin in the Northern Territory.
The NT remained under the administrative control of SA until 1911, when the Commonwealth of Australia assumed control.
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