* Kakadu National Park

Rock painting at Ubirr in Kakadu National Park.

Evidence of Aboriginal art can be traced back at least 30, 000 years and is found throughout Australia ( notably at Uluru and Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory ).

* Kakadu National Park

In another example, the Gagudju people of Arnhemland, for which Kakadu National Park is named, believe that the sandstone escarpment that dominates the park's landscape was created in the Dreamtime when Ginga ( the crocodile-man ) was badly burned during a ceremony and jumped into the water to save himself.

This weevil was used with success in other parts of the world ( 13 tropical countries ) such as the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea ; Sri Lanka ; Wappa Dam in Queensland and lagoons ( e. g. Kakadu National Park ) in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km southeast of Darwin.

Kakadu National Park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Kakadu National Park is renowned for the richness of its Aboriginal cultural sites.

The cultural and natural values of Kakadu National Park were recognised internationally when the Park was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

A national park in the Alligator Rivers region was proposed as early as 1965, but took until 1978 for the Australian Government to make arrangements to acquire the titles over various tracts of land that now constitute Kakadu National Park.

Kakadu National Park was declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 ( NPWC Act ) in three stages between 1979 and 1991.

In 1996, the land in Stage Three, apart from the former Goodparla pastoral leases, was granted to the Gunlom Aboriginal Land Trust and leased to the Director of National Parks to continue being managed as part of Kakadu.

In 1987 both stations were acquired by the Commonwealth and incorporated in Kakadu National Park.

At Jabiru, the average maximum temperature for January is 33 ° C. Annual rainfall in Kakadu National Park ranges from 1, 565 mm in Jabiru to 1, 300 mm in the Mary River region.

Waterlilies such as the Nelumbo nucifera | lotus flower abound in Kakadu National Park.

Lowland areas form a large proportion of Kakadu National Park and are mainly covered in eucalypt-dominated open woodland with the ground layer consisting of a large range of grasses including spear grass, sedges and wildflowers.

Black-necked Stork Kakadu National Park

The diverse environments of Kakadu National Park support an astonishing array of animals, a number of which have adapted to particular habitats.

There are six main landforms in Kakadu National Park: the Arnhem Land plateau and escarpment complex, known as the stone country ; the outliers ; the lowlands ; the southern hills and basins ; the floodplains ; and the tidal flats.

Tourism represents a significant human impact to Kakadu National Park with hundreds of thousands of visitors arriving annually.

Fire is part of the landscape of Kakadu National Park as the Park contains large areas of woodland and grassy plains that are subject to long periods of dry hot weather.

Kakadu National Park is a major tourist attraction in Australia ’ s north.

Kakadu National Park has some of the best examples of Aboriginal rock art in Australia.

The name Kakadu comes from the mispronunciation of Gaagudju, which is the name of an Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the northern part of the Park.

Kakadu was listed in three stages: Stage 1 in 1981, Stage 2 in 1987, and the entire Park in 1992.

The Aboriginal traditional owners of the Park are descendants of various clan groups from the Kakadu area and have longstanding affiliations with this country.

Park Management is directed by the Kakadu Board of Management.

Travelling anywhere in Kakadu, you cannot help noticing the lowlands — they make up nearly 70 % of the Park.

All of Kakadu is declared a national park under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Most of the land that was to become part of Stage One of Kakadu was granted to the Kakadu Aboriginal land Trust under the Land Rights Act in August 1978 and, in November 1978, the Land Trust and the Director signed a lease for the land to be managed as a national park.

Like many World Heritage sites around the world, including Yellowstone National Park, Serengeti National Park, Stonehenge, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Pyramids of Egypt-the park use fee helps to maintain world-best management practices and facilities for the more than 200, 000 visitors who experience Kakadu each year.

The town was built for the Uranium mine that was established prior to the founding of Kakadu National Park and provides infrastructure for the mine ’ s workforce as well as the national park activities and tourism.

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Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory is the largest national park in Australia with an area of.

The landscape is well preserved and most of the area is traditionally managed by Aboriginal land trusts, including Kakadu, which is Australia's largest national park and a World Heritage Site.

ACF was a principal party at the Fox Inquiry into mining at Ranger in Kakadu and pressed for the creation of a major national park to protect both the natural and cultural values of the area.

Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1, 000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.

Ludwig Leichhardt was the first land-based European explorer to visit the Kakadu region, in 1845 on his route from Moreton Bay in Queensland to Port Essington in the Northern Territory.

Pastoral leases in the Kakadu area were progressively abandoned from 1889, because the Victoria River and the Barkly Tablelands proved to be better pastoral regions.

The mining camps and new settlements drew many Aboriginal people away from Kakadu.

Most of Kakadu was under a shallow sea approximately 140 million years ago, with the escarpment wall formed from sea cliffs and Arnhem Land from a flat plateau above the sea.

Visitors can experience Kakadu National Park via the Nature ’ s Way tourism drive which is a loop from Darwin to Jabiru then onto Katherine and back to Darwin covering approximately 900km.

A list of the sites can be obtained from the Kakadu National Park ’ s Glenn Murcutt-designed Bowali Visitor Centre or from their website.

Closer to Darwin than the Kakadu National Park, Litchfield National Park is less than two hours drive from the city via a sealed road through the township of Batchelor or via a partially unsealed road off the Cox Peninsula Road.

It covers a rather vaguely defined area of perhaps 400, 000 square kilometres behind the northern coast from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin across to Arnhem Land with the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and with the almost waterless semi-arid interior of Australia to the south, beyond the huge Kakadu National Park.

No Swimming sign from the Kakadu National Park.

The area extends from Port Roper on the Gulf of Carpentaria around the coast to the East Alligator River, where it adjoins Kakadu National Park.

The Ranger Uranium Mine covers two of a line of uranium orebodies that extend from near Nourlangie Rock in Kakadu north-eastwards to Koongarra, underneath Mount Brockman, then northwards through the Ranger One line of orebodies ( in order Number 2, Number 1, and Number 3 ), then via Hades Flat, where there is uranium mineralisation, to Jabiluka where the line turns westward through the Barote and Ranger 4 orebodies.

No 2 orebody was excluded from the mining lease at the request of the traditional owners and included in Kakadu National Park.

In Australia, its primary range is coastal tropical northern Australia, from central Queensland through northern Northern Territory ( including Kakadu National Park ) to the Kimberley in Western Australia.

In two Kakadu study sites, quolls have become extinct at one site and declined from 45 individuals to 5 at the other site.

An attack by a freshwater crocodile on a human was recorded at Barramundi Gorge ( also known as Maguk ) in Kakadu National Park and resulted in minor injuries ; the victim managed to swim and walk away from the attack.

This species can live in areas where saltwater crocodiles cannot, and are known to inhabit areas above the escarpment in Kakadu National Park and in very arid and rocky conditions ( such as Katherine Gorge, where they are common and are relatively safe from saltwater crocodiles during the dry season.

He launched a significant shakeup of mining laws, blocked proposals to create a second mine in the Kakadu National Park, and oversaw the proposal to clean up the environmental damage from the abandoned Mount Todd gold mine, near Alice Springs.