Kakadu National Park
A vast park 171 kilometres south-east of Darwin, listed as a World Heritage Site for both its wetlands and its Aboriginal rock art. Ubirr and Nourlangie hold paintings made over thousands of years, and the floodplains fill with birds and crocodiles.
- Where
- Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- -13.0055, 132.5195
Get the Kakadu National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Kakadu National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Northern Territory volume with your photos and a note.
Near Kakadu National Park
Nitmiluk National Park 146 km
A park around a series of gorges cut by the Katherine River, 23 kilometres north-east of the town of Katherine, with Edith Falls in its north. The Jawoyn people are its custodians, and in their language the name means place of the cicada dreaming.
Litchfield National Park 180 km
About 1,500 square kilometres of bush near Batchelor, 100 kilometres south-west of Darwin, known for its waterfalls and swimming holes. Florence, Wangi and Tolmer Falls drop off the sandstone plateau, and fields of magnetic termite mounds stand aligned north to south.
Mindil Beach 193 km
A beach close to Darwin's city centre, best known for the Sunset Markets held on dry season evenings. Thousands come for food stalls from across Asia and the rest of the world, and to watch the sun go down over the sea.
Purnululu National Park 652 km
A remote World Heritage park in the East Kimberley, about 300 kilometres south of Kununurra. It holds the Bungle Bungle Range, beehive-shaped domes of sandstone banded in orange and black that rise 250 metres above the savannah.
Devils Marbles 861 km
Fields of giant rounded granite boulders, many balanced on one another, about 105 kilometres south of Tennant Creek beside the Stuart Highway. The place is sacred to its Aboriginal traditional owners, and the boulders glow red at sunrise and sunset.
Banda Islands 979 km
A group of ten small volcanic islands rising out of the deep Banda Sea, about 2,000 kilometres east of Java. For centuries they were the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, and Dutch forts and old perkenier houses still stand among the nutmeg groves.
Lorentz National Park 1,107 km
The largest national park in Southeast Asia, covering 25,056 square kilometres of western New Guinea and a World Heritage Site since 1999. It runs unbroken from glaciers in the high mountains down through rainforest to mangroves on the coast.
Puncak Jaya 1,117 km
At 4,884 metres the highest mountain in Indonesia and Oceania, and the highest island peak on Earth, in the Sudirman Range of Central Papua. A sheer limestone climb, it counts as one of the Seven Summits, and small glaciers still cling near its top.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Northern Territory
Questions
Where is Kakadu National Park?
Kakadu National Park is in Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Nitmiluk National Park (146 km), Litchfield National Park (180 km), Mindil Beach (193 km).
How do I get the Kakadu National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Kakadu National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Northern Territory volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Kakadu National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Northern Territory volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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