The Demons believe that training in humidity in the Top End will provide significant benefits as they seek to build their fitness base in what shapes as a critical pre-season.
The players and coaching staff will stay at Robertson Barracks and train at Palmerston Football Club in the Darwin suburb of Palmerston. They will also undertake a Heritage Walk through Kakadu National Park, a 30-kilometre trek that takes one day.
The camp will begin on December 6 and the club will return to Melbourne on December 14.
Melbourne's Football Manager Josh Mahoney said the club was very pleased with the set-up and the potential benefits of training in Darwin.
"Research shows there are benefits in training in humidity," Mahoney said.
"We think that is a great advantage to take [the team to Darwin] during pre-season and couple that up with the fact we play games in Darwin and want to further our footprint in the Darwin area."
The new-look Demons resume pre-season on Monday after a busy trade period where it added seven new players to its list while off-loading five.
They will be a little over one month into their training program when they arrive in Darwin.
"We're definitely not going up there for a holiday," Mahoney said. "It is going to be a hard camp and the conditions are definitely going to add to that."
Having the program in Australia and locating the camp near a football club will enable the Demons to transfer what they have been doing in Melbourne during the eight days.
"We're very pleased with the facilities that have been made available to us and it will be as simple as moving our training up there," Mahoney said. "We won't be missing out on anything in terms of facilities with the advantage of training in some pretty tough conditions."
While in Darwin for the camp the club also aims to run football clinics and associated community-related activities as the Northern Territory football season is in full swing during that period.
Melbourne has played three games at Darwin's TIO Stadium since 2007 and the club has been very supportive of efforts to increase their presence in the region.
Mahoney said the club was rapt with the co-operation of AFLNT, Robertson Barracks, the Palmerston Football Club and the Northern Territory Government in helping to organise the camp.
