Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park

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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = protected

| name = Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park

| state = nt

| city = Davenport{{cite web| title=Place Names Register Extract for "Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges National Park" |url= http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=24190 |website= NT Place Names Register|publisher=Northern Territory Government|access-date= 5 February 2020}}

| iucn_category = II

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| image = Davenport Range National Park 0316.svg

| caption = Iytwelepenty/Davenport Range National Park (outlined in green)

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| nearest_town_or_city = Tennant Creek

| area = 1278.47

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=CAPAD 2012 Northern Territory Summary (see 'DETAIL' tab)|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/0f927a4e-336a-490c-a896-ec37874a5c73/files/capad2012nt.xlsx|work=CAPAD 2012|publisher=Australian Government – Department of the Environment|access-date=7 February 2014|date=7 February 2014}}

| established = 1993

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| 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 {{convert|1033|km}} south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin,{{cite map |title=Australia Road and 4WD Atlas|last=Hema |first=Maps|year=2007 |publisher=Hema Maps|location=Eight Mile Plains Queensland|isbn=978-1-86500-456-3|pages=101}} occupying around {{cvt|1,120|km2}}s of the Davenport Range.{{cite web | title=Northern Territory For Everyone: Davenport Murchision National Park | publisher=Northern Territory for Everyone | url=http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/files/nt/davenport-murchison-np.html | access-date=9 August 2021}} It lies within the Davenport Murchison Ranges bioregion, an area of {{cvt|58,050|km2}}, with a climate ranging from semiarid to subtropical.{{cite book| url=https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/a8015c25-4aa2-4833-ad9c-e98d09e2ab52/files/bioregion-davenport-murchison-ranges.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313023258/http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/a8015c25-4aa2-4833-ad9c-e98d09e2ab52/files/bioregion-davenport-murchison-ranges.pdf |archive-date=13 March 2014 |url-status=live| title=Davenport Murchison Ranges bioregion| publisher=Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment|access-date= 9 August 2021}}

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.{{cite web | title=Davenport-Murchison Range, Northern Territory, Australia | publisher=NASA Earth Observatory | url=https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/42733/davenport-murchison-range-northern-territory-australia | access-date=9 August 2021}} Amelia Creek crater, an ancient eroded impact crater lies within the Davenport Range in the area.{{cite web | title=Earth Impact Database: Amelia Creek | publisher=Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick | url=http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/Ameliacreek.html | access-date=11 September 2022}}