Wycliffe Well

Wycliffe Well started life as a stop off point on the stock route for the Overland Telegraph line in the 1860s.

Later on, during the Second World War, it became a market garden, providing the Australian troops with fruit and vegetables.

Since the 1960s when a petrol pump was installed, Wycliffe Well has become a popular stopping off point for visitors along the Stuart Highway, and the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park takes up most of the town, covering an area of 60 acres including a large fishing lake.

However, it is for its visitors of a different kind that Wycliffe Well is more widely known – there have been numerous UFO sightings in the area, and there are even two model aliens at the front of the Holiday Park, so much are they a part of Wycliffe Well’s nature.

It is worth noting too that the Holiday Park’s bar has the biggest range of beer available anywhere in the NT, and it has been suggested that this might have something to do with the number of UFO sightings…

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