Kakadu National Park

Australia · Oceania

Kakadu National Park

Tropical floodplains and sandstone escarpments with northern specialities.

Photo: Tourism NT · Attribution
Best months
Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep
Days needed
3–5
Difficulty
Moderate
Nearest airport
Darwin (DRW)

When to go

  1. JanJanuary: Poor or no data
  2. FebFebruary: Poor or no data
  3. MarMarch: Poor or no data
  4. AprApril: Poor or no data
  5. MayMay: Good
  6. JunJune: Best
  7. JulJuly: Best
  8. AugAugust: Best
  9. SepSeptember: Best
  10. OctOctober: Good
  11. NovNovember: Poor or no data
  12. DecDecember: Poor or no data

BestGoodFair

Wet season Nov–Apr closes many roads.

Why go

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 National Park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory, covering an area of 19,804 km2 (7,646 sq mi), extending nearly 200 kilometres (124 mi) from north to south and over 100 kilometres (62 mi) from east to west. It is roughly the size of Wales or one-third the size of Tasmania, and is the second-largest national park in Australia, after the Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert National Park.

Background from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Target birds

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