Top End
The Top End is the northern, tropical part of Northern Territory, home to the northernmost city in Australia and lots of salties.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Darwin and Kakadu National Park.
Darwin
Darwin, a small yet cosmopolitan city, is the tropical capital city of the Northern Territory. People from more than 50 nations make up its population of 147,255.
Kakadu National Park
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A trip to the north of Australia is never complete without visiting Kakadu National Park. Sometimes colloquially called as "Australia's national park", the park is in the Northern Territory, 171 km east of Darwin and the national park is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Arnhem Land
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Arnhem Land is an isolated reserve that covers 91,000 km2 in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It's in the middle of Australia's northern coast and bounded by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Katherine and Tiwi Islands.
Katherine
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Katherine is a town of 9,643 in the Lower Top End of the Northern Territory, most renowned for its eye-catching gorge.
Tiwi Islands
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The Tiwi Islands are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, with a combined area of 8,320 square kilometres.
Litchfield National Park
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Litchfield National Park is in the Northern Territory, 69 km south of Darwin. The park's main attractions are the waterfalls and the clear pools of water they cascade into.
Pine Creek
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Pine Creek is a city in Australia. It is located 90km north of Katherine at the junction of the Stuart and Kakadu Highways.
Adelaide River
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Adelaide River is a township in the Top End of the Northern Territory that played an important role in the defence of Australia in World War II. At one point 30,000 Australian and the United States army soldiers were based around the town.
Gregory National Park
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Judbarra / Gregory National Park is a national park in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It has an area of 13,004.12 km2, which is larger than the total area of all Ukrainian national parks combined, and it is the second largest national park in the Northern Territory, only behind Kakadu.
Humpty Doo
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Humpty Doo is a small town in the Top End of the Northern Territory not far from Darwin on the road to Kakadu National Park.
Top End
- Type: region
- Description: geographical region of the Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as: “The Top End” and “The Top End of Australia”
- Location: Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-13.8833° or 13° 52′ 60″ southLongitude
133° eastOpen location code
5QRM4282+M2Wikidata ID
Q14211167
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Venetian—“Top End” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “টপ এন্ড”
- Catalan: “Top End”
- Chinese: “北領地最北端”
- Danish: “Top End”
- Dutch: “Top End”
- Esperanto: “Supra Pinto”
- Esperanto: “Top End”
- French: “Top End”
- German: “Top End”
- Indonesian: “Top End”
- Italian: “Top End”
- Japanese: “トップエンド”
- Luxembourgish: “Top End”
- Persian: “تاپ اند”
- Portuguese: “Top End”
- Slovenian: “Top End”
- Spanish: “Top End”
- Venetian: “Top End”
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