Mindil Beach
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.
- Where
- Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -12.4451, 130.8310
Get the Mindil Beach stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mindil Beach. 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 Mindil Beach
Litchfield National Park 93 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.
Kakadu National Park 193 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 270 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 608 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.
Banda Islands 880 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.
Devils Marbles 974 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.
Ambon Island 1,025 km
A mountainous, well watered island in the Maluku group, once at the heart of the clove trade. Its main town, Ambon, is the capital and seaport of Maluku province, set on a deep bay in the south.
Wakatobi National Park 1,060 km
A marine national park in Southeast Sulawesi, established in 2002, its name made from the first letters of the four main islands: Wangi-wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia and Binongko. The reefs around them are among the most prized dive sites in Indonesia.
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Questions
Where is Mindil Beach?
Mindil Beach is in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Litchfield National Park (93 km), Kakadu National Park (193 km), Nitmiluk National Park (270 km).
How do I get the Mindil Beach stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mindil Beach 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 Mindil Beach 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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