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Kakadu National Park (see pp280–81) is
an ancient landscape of tropical rainforest
and majestic rock formations. Covering
1.7 million ha (4.3 million acres), it is the
largest national park in Australia. The Jim
Jim Falls are the most impressive in the park,
and the Aboriginal rock art sites are among
the most important in the country.

Locator Map

Roper Bar
Darwin and Elsey Homestead Replica, 110 km (70 miles)
the Top End southeast of Katherine (see pp278–9), was the
(see pp270–81) setting for Jeannie Gunn’s novel We of the Never
Borroloola Ne
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Never, depicting 19th-century Outback life.ver, depicting 19th-century Outback life.ver
Daly Waters
Karlu Karlu/Devil’s
Dunmarra Marbles (see p289) are
a remarkable collection
of granite boulders in
the heart of the flat,
sandy desert. Caused
by millions of years
Cape Crawford of erosion, they are
Roadhouse traditionally believed
to be the eggs of the
Rainbow Serpent.
Three Ways
Roadhouse
Tennant
Creek Alice Springs (see
pp286–7) lies at the
heart of Australia. Its
Old Telegraph Station
Historical Reserve was
the site of the area’s
first settlement in 1871.
Ti-Tree
Utopia
Aileron
Harts
Range

Alice Springs

Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve (see p288) is
a strange, 50-m (165-ft) sandstone column which
Erldunda served as a landmark for explorers of the area in
the 19th century.