Litchfield National Park
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.
- Where
- Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -13.2792, 130.8767
Get the Litchfield National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Litchfield 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 Litchfield National Park
Mindil Beach 93 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.
Kakadu National Park 180 km
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.
Nitmiluk National Park 203 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.
Purnululu National Park 527 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 887 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 973 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.
Cable Beach 1,064 km
Twenty-two kilometres of white sand on the Indian Ocean at Broome, named after the telegraph cable laid from here to Java in 1889. Low red ochre cliffs rise behind the wide, flat beach, and camel trains walk the shore at sunset.
Kelimutu 1,108 km
A volcano in central Flores, about 50 kilometres east of Ende, crowned by three crater lakes of different colours. The lakes shift between blue, green, red and black as the chemistry of the volcano changes, and local belief holds them to be resting places of souls.
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Questions
Where is Litchfield National Park?
Litchfield National Park is in Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Mindil Beach (93 km), Kakadu National Park (180 km), Nitmiluk National Park (203 km).
How do I get the Litchfield National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Litchfield 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 Litchfield 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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