ADELAIDE RIVER Adelaide River is different. Adelaide River is a War Cemetery town that now is its preeminence ‘attraction’.  The War Cemetary is a very moving place to be and to visit. Prepare yourself. Adelaide River is a township lying 116 kilometres south of Darwin, on the main north-south road from the capital to the railhead at Alice Springs. The War Cemetery adjoins the civil cemetery, and is situated in savannah country about 1 kilometre from the Stuart Highway, in a short road which runs parallel to, and 100 metres from, the Adelaide River. Within the cemetery the graves are set in grassed plots in an area contained by a raised concrete kerb. During the Second World War, Adelaide River was the headquarters of a large base, and the war cemetery was created especially for the burial of servicemen who died in this part of Australia. The cemetery contains 434 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. Within Adelaide River War Cemetery will be found the Northern Territory Memorial, which commemorates members of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Australian Merchant Navy and the Services Reconnaissance Department who lost their lives in operations in the Timor and Northern Australian regions and in waters adjacent to Australia north of Latitude 20 degrees south, and who have no known grave.  Adelaide River has a multi denominational church. The Hotel is famous watering hole. Adelaide River has a first class railway museum Allow a full half day at a minimum to be succumbed.