kolej-i-drogi: Kakadu National Park

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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–Sim…

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Mount Bundey is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 115 kilometres (71 mi) east of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of land bounded to the north by the Arnhem Highway and to the east by the Kakadu National Park. The locality is named from a hill named Mount Bundey which itself is named after the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bundey. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The Mount Bundey Training Area, an Australian Defence Force facility, occupies the eastern side of the locality. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Bundey had 33 people living within its boundaries. Mount Bunde…

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Katherine (/ˈkæθɹɪn/; Australian Kriol: Gajadein) is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated on the Katherine River, after which it is named, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of Darwin. The fourth largest settlement in the Territory, it is known as the place where "the outback meets the tropics". Katherine had an urban population of 9,643 at the 2021 Australian census. Katherine is also the closest major town to RAAF Base Tindal, located 17 km (11 mi) southeast, and provides education, health, local government services and employment opportunities for the families of Defence personnel stationed there. In the 2016 census, the base had a residential population of 857, w…

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Jabiru is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Built in 1982, the town is completely surrounded by Kakadu National Park. At the 2016 census, Jabiru had a population of 1,081. It is named after the black-necked stork often seen in the wetlands and billabongs of Kakadu, which is commonly referred to in Australia as a jabiru.

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<i>Solanumscalarium</i> (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.. A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of SolanumsubgenusLeptostemonum is described. Solanumscalarium Martine & T.M.Williams, sp. nov. , is a member of the taxonomically challenging "Kimberley dioecious clade" in Australia and differs from other species in the group in its spreading decumbent habit and conspicuously prickly male floral rachis. The species is so far known from one site in Judbarra/Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory. Ex situ crosses and confirmation of inaperturate pollen grains produced in morphologically…

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Kakadu National Park — conflicts in a world heritage area

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The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National Park. The relationship between heritage and identity can hardly be doubted; indeed, identity has been central to the field of heritage since its inception. This is the case whether we are thinking in terms of research, policy, or popular engagements. In this chapter, the author draws from a combination of structured visitor interviews carried out on-site at two of the main rock art galleries within Kakadu National Park—Ubirr and Nanguluwurr—and in-depth, semistructured interviews undertaken with a selection of visitors some months after their initial visit. The questions participants were asked centered upon eliciting an understan…

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Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1,500 km2, is near the township of Batchelor, 100 km south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Each year the park attracts over 329,000 visitors. Proclaimed a national park in 1986, it is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a Territory pioneer, who explored areas of the Northern Territory from Escape Cliffs in Van Diemen Gulf to the Daly River in 1864.

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Chapter 4. Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

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Wetlands of Kakadu National Park (Australia)

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Point Stuart is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the territorial capital of Darwin. The locality consists of land bounded in part to the west by the Mary River, in part to the north by the coastline of Van Diemen Gulf, to the east by the Kakadu National Park and in the south by the Arnhem Highway. The locality was named after a feature on the coastline of Van Diemen Gulf which was named in honour of John McDouall Stuart for his successful crossing of the Australian continent in 1862.Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Point Stuart had 22…

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation, or natural beauty, are defin…