US Marines to Arrive in Northern Territory This Week

Australian troops and US Marines listen as then-US President Barack Obama delivers an address at RAAF Base Darwin on November 17, 2011. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Northern Territory will once again see a rotation of United States Marines despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first of about 1200 U.S. Marines will arrive in Darwin for joint exercises this week as part of a near decade-long arrangement that has been delayed for two months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.