Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km (106 mi) southeast of Darwin. It is a World Heritage Site. Kakadu is also gazetted as a locality, covering the same area as the national park, with 313 people recorded living there in the 2016 Australian census.
Kakadu Escarpment
The Ubirr Aboriginal rock art site
Rock art painting at Ubirr
Water buffalo in the wetlands
The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
Thomas Baines with Aboriginal Australians near the mouth of the Victoria River.
Letters Patent annexing the Northern Territory to South Australia, 1863
The northern coast of Australia is on the left with Melville Island in the lower right
Mount Sonder, the fourth-highest mountain in the Northern Territory after nearby Mount Zeil, in West MacDonnell National Park
