The ten head stamp battery which gives Battery Hill its name was commissioned in 1939 to provide crushing and processing facilities for the small privately owned gold mines. While there were private gold extraction plants available, most were unsuitable for the heavy workloads required. Frequent breakdowns meant that miners had great difficulty in getting any ore crushed.

Work began almost immediately, but the advent of World War II meant that no mines were operating when the plant was completed in 1942. It sat inactive until the end of the War, and did not begin working until 1946. Partly as a result of budget constraints during construction, the foundations failed beyond repair in 1956. It was decided that the entire plant should be rebuilt. Using both new parts, and items reclaimed from local batteries and other areas of Australia, the plant was entirely rebuilt on its present site, where it re-opened in 1959. It continued to operate commercially until the late 1980s and was handed over to be developed as a tourist attraction in 1992.

The Devils Marbles are 393km north of Alice Springs and 1 hour south of Tennant Creek by the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. The Devils Marbles are 4 meters high and 13-33 metres wide. The Devils Marbles are massive granite boulders that have been formed over millions of years. The Aborigines have a theory that the Devils Marbles are Rainbow Serpent eggs.

The Devils Marbles are important because they are huge boulders that are piled on top of each other. The Devils Marbles are cracking because of the hot and cold weather of the desert. Another theory is over millions of years, through an effect called onion skin weathering, the rounded edges created the spherical and oval shapes which are so famous today, but Mother Nature is still not satisfied and is still working.

The Devils Marbles are eroding into square cubes of rock. The scientists believe that in about fifty million years they will be little pebbles. One Devils Marble was placed on the top of the grave to John Flynn who was the founder of the Flying Doctor Service in Central Australia, but the aborigines said that the Devils Marbles were sacred. The aborigines didn't want one of the Devils Marbles moved, so the marble on the grave was put back where it was originally found in the Northern Territory. Many animals live around the Devils Marbles including snakes, emus, dingoes, lizards, birds, kangaroos and wallabies. People should care for these great boulders and never go chipping bits out of them. Some people say that the Devils Marbles were formed by erosion. The Devils Marbles real name is Karwekarlwe.