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#AUSSIE AIRPASS MOVIE#

Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Hnderson said the movie 'really is going to put us on the map.' The Northern Territory, where Darwin is situated, has also launched a $393,000 tourism campaign in the wake of the movie, touting the territory as 'the real outback.' 'We want to make sure that moviegoers who are inspired to visit the region know that it's actually WA's stunning landscapes and outback adventure they're longing for,' state tourism minister Liz Constable said in a statement last week.

Various tour operators have begun offering tours of the Kimberley region in connection with the movie, and the state of Western Australia has begun its own $1.4 million tourism campaign of cinema, print, online advertisements and in-flight television. The real-life Strickland House at Vaucluse on Sydney Harbour, a historic 1850s villa and garden estate, served as the location for filming the movie's 'Darwin Government House.' Other movie scenes set in Darwin were shot in Bowen, Queensland, a beach town north of the Whitsunday Islands.

Visitors to real-life Darwin can see a war memorial related to that attack as well as Stokes Hill Wharf, which provided the backdrop for some of the harbor scenes. The movie's World War II scenes were mostly filmed in the northwest city of Darwin, where Japanese raids in 19 killed more than 900 people. Other film sites include working cattle stations at El Questro and Home Valley, the sandstone escarpments of the Cockburn Range and the striped mounds of the Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The movie was filmed largely in rugged Western Australia, notably in and around the small town of Kununurra, a three-hour flight north of Perth, and in the California-sized Kimberley wilderness region. The film follows the story of a noblewoman on a cattle drive in Australia during World War II.

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