Kakadu National Park is famous for natural and cultural reasons. It houses a complex ecosystem of tidal flats, floodplains, lowlands and plateaus that is home to hundreds of plants and animals, and Aboriginal people.
In fact, the Aboriginals have been living in Kakadu for as long as the last 40,000 years. The site is rich in Aboriginal culture. It has around 5000 recorded art sites illustrating Aboriginal culture over thousands of years.
These existed along with a rich variety of flora and fauna; the Kakadu plum, Koolpin Gorge, spear grass, black wallaroos, black flying foxes…the list can go on and on with more names of plants, mammals, birds, frogs and fish. Because of the natural and cultural history of Kakadu National Park has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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