| Type: | protected |
| Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park | |
| State: | nt |
| City: | Davenport[1] |
| Iucn Category: | II |
| Nearest Town Or City: | Tennant Creek |
| Area: | 1278.47 |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Established: | 1993 |
| Managing Authorities: | Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory |
| Url: | https://web.archive.org/web/20140225011633/http://www.parksandwildlife.nt.gov.au/parks/find/davenportrange |
Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range, or Davenport Ranges National Park (Iytwellepenty), previously the Davenport Murchison National Park, is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia about south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin,[3] occupying around s of the Davenport Range.[4] It lies within the Davenport Murchison Ranges bioregion, an area of, with a climate ranging from semiarid to subtropical.[5]
The mountains were caused by a tectonic event hundreds of millions of years ago, but recent images from space have shown that erosion occurred that exposed the ridges and valleys only around 100 million years ago.[6] Amelia Creek crater, an ancient eroded impact crater lies within the Davenport Range in the area.[7]