Kakadu National Park	Bathurst Island	Macarthur River

The Facts The best time to go: April to November are the best months to visit the Top End due to the wet season over December to March. September to November is when humidity, air and water temperatures are building up to the start of the wet. How to get there: by road: drive north from Adelaide to Darwin via the Stuart Highway. Darwin is linked to Adelaide and the rest of Australia's capital cities via The Ghan. Daily flights operate from all Australian capital cities to Darwin. Towns and Villages Daly Waters Elliott Kakadu Katherine Larrimah Dunmarra Mataranka Cobourg Peninsula Daly River Adelaide River Rum Jungle Batchelor Humpty Doo Pine Creek Victoria River Tiwi Islands

Places of interest Natural Wonders Kakadu National Park Regional National Parks Natural Attractions Bynoe Harbour Dundee Beach Victoria River: Gregory National Park Adelaide River: Douglas Hot Springs; Ooloo Crossing; Butterfly Gorge Humpty Doo: Marrakai Conservation Reserve; Fogg Dam Nature Reserves; Adelaide River jumping crocodiles; Reptile World Batchelor - Litchfield National Park Pine Creek: Umbrawarra Gorge; Lake Copperfield Katherine: Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk National Park); Cutta Cutta Caves; Flora River Nature Park; Douglas Hot Springs; Kilmore Caves Cobourg Peninsula: Cobourg Peninsula NP; Garig Gunak Barlu National Park; Cobourg Marine Park; Croker Island; Tiwi Islands: Bathurst Island; Melville Island Mataranka: Mataranka thermal springs; Bitter Springs thermal pool; Elsey National Reserve Daly River: Daly River Nature Park; The Arches rock formation; Butterfly Gorge; Douglas Hot Springs Elliott: Renner Springs; Lake Woods Kakadu NP: Alligator Rivers; Mary River National Park; Jimmy Creek Rainforest; Yellow Waters Billabong Waterfalls Litchfield NP - Wangi Falls; Florence Falls; Tolmer Falls; Tjanerra Falls; Surprise Falls Adelaide River: Robin Falls Katherine: Edith Falls; Beswick Falls; Seventeen Mile Falls; Biddlecombe Cascades; Crystal Falls; Beswick Falls Kakadu NP: Jim Jim Falls; Twin Falls; Kurrundie Falls; Koolpin Falls; Freezing Falls; Gunlom Falls; Dinner Creek Falls; Motorcar Falls Historic Places Victoria River: Victoria Downs Homestead (38 km south-east of Victoria River Downs Homestead, 1883-90); Wimmera Home (old hospital); Victoria River Depot (includes remnants of landing and store, graves, Timber Creek Aerodrome); Gordon Creek Police Station Museum (1888); Gregory's Tree (carved, 1856) Adelaide River: WW II air strips; Adelaide River Railway Precinct; Adelaide River War Cemetery; Hayes Creek WW II Army farm site Batchelor: Rum Jungle uranium mine site Pine Creek: Railway Precinct and Museum; Overland Telegraph Line Repeater Station Museum Katherine: Springvale Homestead; Wardaman rock art; Kintore Caves aboriginal rock art Cobourg Peninsula: Fort Wellington and Port Essington (Victoria) settlement ruins; Cape Don Lighthouse (1915-20) Tiwi Islands: Fort Dundas ruins Mataranka: Elsey Homestead replica; Mataranka Homestead; Rural Transaction Centre; James and Jeannie Gunn memorials Larrimah: Alexander Forrest monument; Gorrie Airfield remnants Daly River: Elizabeth Downs station; Uniya Jesuit Mission ruins; copper mine ruins and cemetery; Fenton WW II airfield and aircraft graveyard Dunmarra: Overland Telegraph Line memorabilia Elliott: Drovers Memorial; Newcastle Waters ghost town Daly Waters: Elizabeth Downs Mission; Daly Waters airstrip, original Qantas hangar and terminal ruins Kakadu NP: Ubirr, Obiri, Deaf Adder Creek, Malangangerr, Namorgon Djadjan; Mt. Brockman Massif, Djawumbu Madjawarna, Ngarradj Warde Djobkeng and Nourangie Aboriginal rock art sites Misc. Attractions Kakadu NP: Ranger uranium mine Journeys Flights: Kakadu NP Cruises: Tiwi Islands; Yellow Waters, Kakadu NP; Katherine Gorge Railways: The Ghan