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Mount Zeil is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin.
The locality consists of the following land: The Derwent pastoral lease in the north-west The Narwietooma pastoral lease in the north-east The Glen Helen pastoral lease in the south-west, and The north-west part of the West MacDonnell National Park in the south-east.
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the mountain of the same name which is located within its boundaries. As of 2020, it has an area of .
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Zeil had 83 people living within its boundaries.
Mount Zeil is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.
Unidentified aerial phenomena On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Harold E. Puthoff referred to a CIA program called the Stargate Project, that identified Mount Zeil as the location of a "secret alien base".
Mount Zeil is in the same region as Pine Gap, a joint defence space research facility. The station is jointly run by the Australian Signals Directorate, the US Central Intelligence Agency, the US National Security Agency, and the US National Reconnaissance Office.
Wycliffe Well, abandoned UFO tourist attraction, is also in this region.
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