k - kilometre: e.g., The next town is about fifty k's away.

k's - 1. kilometres: e.g., How many k's is it to Melbourne? 2. kilometres per hour.

kafuffle - commotion; row; argument; upset.

Kajabbi - a tiny settlement with a population of around 30, Kajabbi is located 118km north-east of Mount Isa and 100km north-west of Cloncurry. Mining relics, including smelter stacks, are still to be found at the sites of the former Dobbyn and Mount Cuthbert copper mines. The nearby mines at attracted miners to the area and, as a railhead in the 1920s, it was a location where the cattle owners from Queensland's far north-west brought their herds for shipment to the coast. Kajabbi is famous for the town's only pub, the Kalkadoon Hotel. The warrier Kalkadoon tribe, after whom the local hotel is named, had their last battle against mounted troops on the slopes of nearby Battle Mountain, and a memorial to the Kalkadoon tribes is situated opposite the hotel.

Kakadu - an Aboriginal Reserve and the largest terrestrial national park in Australia. It comprises almost 8000 square miles of spectacular wildlife habitat, which ranges from the high stone plateau to forest woodland, monsoon rainforest to open, savannah-like flood plains dotted with billabongs; mangrove-fringed estuaries to coastal beaches of the Arafura Sea. At the heart of Kakadu is the South Alligator River. All life in the park depends on the seasonal monsoon to provide the year's quota of water. One thousand species of flora, 30 mammals, 75 reptiles, 1500 butterflies and moths, 50 freshwater fish and 25 species of frog have been discovered in Kakadu. Archaeological evidence suggest that humans have lived in the Kakadu region continuously from around 50,000 years ago, the earliest date that humans are known to have arrived in Australia. Renowned rock formations, including Ubirr and Nourlangie Rock, feature extensive galleries of paintings bearing a record of continuing Aboriginal culture over tens of thousands of years. The name 'Kakadu' is derived from 'Gagudju', the main Aboriginal language used at the start of the 20th century. Today, Aboriginal people from three major language groups - Gundjeihmi/Mayali, Kunwinjku and Jawoyn - live within the park. Kakadu is located at the northern fringe of the Northern Territory.

Kakadu Aboriginal Land Trust - the owner of land in the Northern Territory, being N.T. Portion 1641, Part of N.T. Portion 1162 and N.T. Portion 1663. These parcels of land combine to comprise most of Stage One of Kakadu National Park. Aboriginal land trusts are constituted under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Commonwealth legislation). Under the Act, where land is granted following a traditional land claim, the title is held by an Aboriginal Land Trust.

Kakadu escarpment - 140 million years ago, much of Kakadu was under a shallow sea. The prominent escarpment wall formed sea cliffs, and the Arnhem Land plateau formed a flat land above the sea. Today, the escarpment rises to 330 metres above the plains and extends over 500 kilometres along the eastern boundary of the park. It varies from vertical cliffs in the Jim Jim Falls area to stepped cliffs and isolated outliers in the north. The escarpment is formed from layers of sandstone that were subsequently scoured and eroded to form gorges that now contain rainforests. Here can be found some extraordinary galleries of Aboriginal art, with rock sites dating back 25,000 years.

Kakadu National Park - an outstanding example representing significant ongoing geological processes particularly associated with the effects of sea level change in northern Australia, biological evolution and people's interaction with their natural environment. Kakadu is the largest terrestrial national park in Australia, comprising almost 8000sq mi of wildlife habitat that ranges from the high stone plateau to forest woodland, monsoon rainforest to open, savanna-like flood plains, and coastal beaches of the Arafura Sea. Joint management of the park began in 1978, when leases were executed with the Kakadu Aboriginal Land Trust. As the park increased in size, further leases were executed with the Jabiluka and Gunlom Aboriginal Land Trusts. The Bininj/Mungguy (Aboriginal) representation covers the geographic spread of Aboriginal people in the region as well as the major language groups.

Kakadu plum - a round, tartly sweet, green plum that is extraordinarily high in vitamin C.

kakka - an undersized crustacean.

kala-azar - a tropical disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Leishmania donovani, which is transmitted to man by sandflies.

Kalamaia - an Aboriginal people of Western Australia.

Kalbarri - a township located at the mouth of the Murchison River. The town supports a local fishing industry and serves as a tourist base for visitors to Kalbarri National Park. Kalbarri is located about 590km north of Perth in WA.

Kalbarri National Park - 186,096ha of spectacular scenery in Western Australia. Weathering has exposed the layers of the coastal cliffs that rise more than 100 metres above the ocean. These Tumblagooda sandstone walls were created 400 million years ago on the tidal flats of an ancient sea. Fossil tracks and sea fossils can be found in many places along the river. The Murchison River gorges cut through the sand plain for 150km, stretching from the highway to Kalbarri town. Numerous coastal gorges include the famed Island Rock and the Natural Arch, which are easily accessed. Kalbarri National Park is located 590km north of Perth.

Kalgoorlie - site of the country's biggest gold rush, which began in 1893. Water was scarce, and had to be distilled from bores and dams and then transported by camel to the region. Men came in the thousands from all over the world, and hundreds of mining companies were floated to speculate on the rich reefs. Kalgoorlie in the 1890s was a town of canvas tents, hessian huts and galvanized iron sheds, with a population of about 11,000. In the space of a few years, the goldfields had become the economic and political centre of Western Australia. Since 1893, the Kalgoorlie gold deposits - dubbed the 'Golden Mile', and reputed to be the richest square mile in the world - have produced over 35,000,000 ounces (993.125 tonnes) of gold. Kalgoorlie is still a mining town, although it doesn’t produce as much as it did in the 1890s boom period. It has since grown into the regional city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Kalgoorlie-Boulder - a city of some 59,000 people, a service centre for other towns in the Goldfields and Northern Goldfields sub-regions, and the regional transport hub. The area was first explored in 1863 by HM Lefroy, with further expeditions led by CC Hunt during 1864-68. Both men were seeking pastoral land and rode over the gold-bearing earth oblivious to the riches below. It was not until the gold rushes of the north-west of the state declined that miners began to explore the tracks established by Hunt. The city is a key location for the transfer of mineral products from mines in the region, and the importation of processing re-agents and other supplies for the mining industry. The traditional landowners of the Kalgoorlie area are the Maduwangka people, and the name Kalgoorlie is said to mean "silky pear bush" in their language. Located 369km from Perth, by air travel.

Kalkadoon - once inhabited the range of hills running in an arc from Selwyn to Mount Isa to Kajabbi. Few Aboriginal tribes struck back at the white invaders, notable exceptions being the Palmer River tribe and the Kalkadoons, who in 1884 charged down Battle Mountain near Kajabbi against the invader. A Kalkadoon fighting man in full dress was a fearsome sight - generally more than six feet tall and broad in proportion, with piled-up hair and a plume of emu or eagle-hawk feathers adding to his height. His face was either covered with or surrounded by a band of white feathers stuck on with dried blood. Bands of feathers decorated his arms and legs. He had a collection of spears ranging from a twelve-foot giant, which he used as a lance, to light throwing spears, tipped with fire-hardened wood and barbs. These, when thrown with a woomera, could go through a man at seventy yards. What chance had spear and boomerang against Urquhart's mounted troops with carbines? They were killed almost to a man (women and children included), a terrible reprisal for the spearing of cattle and the killing and eating of a few Europeans and Chinese. The last known Kalkadoon survivor, Tubbie Terrier, died in Cloncurry Hospital in 1930. The descendants of white settlers in the area say that the sounds of that massacre can still be heard when the moon is full, carried on the wind around Battle Mountain.

Kalkaringi - a town on the Victoria River, set up about 8km from Dagaragu to service the nearby stations. Many Gurindji moved to Kalkaringi, and now both Kalkaringi and Dagaragu are home to the Gurindji. The general topography of the district consists of mainly flat plain broken by small hills and rocky outcrops. All local rivers drain into the Victoria River and vegetation ranges from saltbush desert flats to densely wooded areas within the pastoral properties of Wave Hill, Camfield, Mount Sanford, Pidgeon Hole and Montejinni. Kalkaringi is located 470km south-west of Katherine, in the Northern Territory.

Kallaua - alternate spelling of Alawa.

Kalumburu - the township is located in the far northern Kimberley and is a modern Aboriginal community. This community was originally established at Pago and known as the Drysdale River Mission but was relocated to the present Kalumburu township site in 1927. The church still owns and operates the mission grounds and school, whilst the Kalumburu community is run by the Kalumburu Aboriginal Corporation. Visitors are welcomed by the community and a number of services operate to enable you to enjoy your stay for an extended period if you wish. Like other areas along the Kimberley coast, Kalumburu was bombed by the Japanese in WWII. Together with the history of the mission and various relics and ruins around the area, there is much to see and do other than the obvious fishing and camping. Due to the increased popularity of 4WD vehicles and the allure of self-sufficient camp/drive holidays, visitor numbers have boomed in even the most remote areas of Australia's outback. Kalumburu is certainly less visited than the Mitchell Falls, however it is well known that the waters off the Kalumburu coast hold great bounties for fishermen. The extensive river crossings on the Kalumburu Road make travel impassable for much of the wet season, yet from around April the first tourists will start attempting to push through to the north.Generally most travellers come once conditions have begun to dry - usually towards the of end May.  

Kamilaroi - an Aboriginal people who have traditionally inhabited a large region of central-northern NSW, including the entire Namoi catchment, prior to colonisation. There were the usual conflicts over land, food, customs and the rape of black women but matters weren't helped by the Myall Creek Massacre and the murderous actions of Major Nunn's troop on the Namoi River. Both outrages occurred in 1838 as white settlement of the Barwon was beginning. Along with drought and economic recession, this conflict successfully slowed settlement until the introduction of the Native Police, whose tactics and firearms effectively quashed resistance by 1850. The Aborigines then retreated. Some returned to work as station hands. Today, there are 12 local land councils in the Namoi representing a population of approximately 4,500 as per the 1996 census. Kamilaroi people extend from the Liverpool Plains to Gwydir, and Walgett, Bingara and Quirindi.

Kanak/Kanaka - a Pacific Islander, especially (formerly) one employed as an indentured labourer in the sugar and cotton industries of Queensland.

Kanal gundidj - for thousands of years the Dergholm-Chetwynd area was inhabited by Aboriginal people of the Kanal gundidj clan. This was one of 37 clans belonging to the Jardwadjali language group, which once covered a large part of western Victoria. When European settlement began in the late 1830s, the traditional lifestyle and social and cultural structures of the Aborigines were profoundly affected and their numbers rapidly declined.

Kandijwal - an Aboriginal community within the Mitchell River National Park, of which they are the traditional owners.

kandosols - mostly well-drained, permeable soils - although some yellow and most grey forms have impeded subsoil drainage. They are common in all states except Victoria and Tasmania. Kandosols are used for extensive agriculture in the wheatbelt of southern New South Wales and south-west Western Australia. Most kandosols have low fertility and are susceptible to surface soil degradation such as hardsetting and crusting. Also known as red, yellow and grey earths; calcareous red earths.

Kandyu - an Aboriginal people of Queensland.

kanga - 1. kangaroo. 2. (cap.) a jack-hammer.

kanga cricket - a game of cricket with rules and equipment designed for young participants.

kangaroo - any of the larger marsupials of the Macropodidae family, having short forelimbs, a heavily muscled tail for support and balance, long feet and powerful limbs, and a swift, bounding motion. This is the first and best-known borrowing of an Aboriginal word into English. In 1770, when Captain Cook was forced to make repairs to the Endeavour in north Queensland, he and his party saw a number of large marsupials. From the local Aborigines - the Guugu Yimidhir of Cooktown - Cook elicited kangaroo or kanguru as the name of one of the animals. When Europeans settled along the Darling River, the English word kangaroo was taken over into the Baagandji language (with the form gaanggurru) as the name for the introduced horse. In total there are 55 species of kangaroo, wallaby and wallaroo belonging to the family Macropodidae (from a Greek word meaning 'big feet'). They are all similar animals but differ in size and build, from the large red and grey kangaroos to the rabbit-sized rat kangaroo. Kangaroos often graze alongside sheep and cattle, and, because they have teeth in both upper and lower jaw, unlike sheep which have teeth in only the lower, they can crop grass more closely than can sheep. Kangaroos can also survive on poor quality grass and go without water for long periods.Excellent eyesight, a good sense of smell and large, flexible ears enable the kangaroo to quickly detect approaching danger. An alarmed kangaroo thumps the ground with its hind legs, rather like a rabbit does, to warn the rest of the mob. When feeding and moving slowly, kangaroos balance themselves on their small front legs and strong tail, swinging the large hindlegs forward. They then bring their arms and tail up to complete the second stage of the movement. In the breeding season, usually spring and early summer, rival male kangaroos rear up on their hind legs and box to compete for a female. A natural predator used to be the Tasmanian wolf, but which has become extinct. The dingo, a wild dog introduced into Australia, is the only enemy of the kangaroo, except for man. A large kangaroo is well able to fight off several dingoes by rearing up on its tail and lashing out with its powerful hind feet. Full contact with one of these kicks can kill. However, a kangaroo has no defence against man and his gun. The loss of natural enemies, the creation of wide areas of grassland and the ability of the kangaroo to breed throughout most of the year has caused kangaroo numbers to increase to pest proportions. Farmers have erected thousands of kilometres of fencing to keep kangaroos off their pastures, but this is expensive and kangaroos can leap over or squeeze underneath fences. Many cause accidents as they bound across roads at night, colliding with cars. As a result, huge numbers of kangaroos are shot.

kangaroo apple - Solanum laciniatum, a stout, rapid-growing plant with dark, fleshy stems growing 4 to 6 feet in a season; much-divided leaves, dark violet flowers, and fruits the size of a small plum, changing from green to yellow and red. They are traditional bush tucker, but were eaten only when soft-ripe and deep orange coloured. The name derives from the leaves, which are shaped rather like the track of a kangaroo's foot.

kangaroo bar - a heavy metal bar across the front of a vehicle to prevent damage if it strikes a kangaroo or other beast on the road.

kangaroo bush - 1. punty. 2. sand-hill wattle.

kangaroo dance - an Aboriginal dance in which the movements of a kangaroo are represented.

kangaroo drive - an operation in which kangaroos are slaughtered.

kangaroo feather - (in the war of 1914-18) an emu plume worn on the hats of the Australian Light Horse.

kangaroo fence - a fence made to exclude kangaroos.

kangaroo fern - Phymatosorus pustulatus, a species typically seen decorating the mossy trunks of rainforest trees such as myrtle-beech and southern sassafras. Found as far north as tropical Queensland.

kangaroo fly - any small, intensely irritating fly.

kangaroo grass - Themeda triandra, a tall (60cm-90cm), perennial, tussock grass, one of the most widely distributed grasses in Australia. it occurs on gently sloping valley floors on medium-textured red earth soils, on low hills and near creeks. It often grows in association with mulga, coolibah, red river gums and spinifex. Aboriginals in the tableland and high country of New South Wales collected the seed for grinding into flour for making damper. While very responsive to summer rain it does not withstand heavy grazing especially during flowering. It is tolerant of fire and can be burnt to produce a green firebreak around fence lines. Once a dominant tussock over wide areas of grassland and woodland, now frequently out-competed by introduced grasses.

Kangaroo Island - Australia's third-largest island, located off the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula, 120km south-west of Adelaide. With a 480km coastline of rugged cliffs and protected coves, the island's continuing isolation has ensured an abundance of wildlife. The island was discovered and explored by Matthew Flinders during his exploration of 1800-1802. He and his crew found the island densely inhabited with kangaroos, after having been four months without fresh provisions.

Kangaroo Island echidna - one of five recognised subspecies of short-beaked echidna, it is found from sea level to the highest points on Kangaroo Island, including woodland, shrubland, heath, coastal dunes and tidal and freshwater swamps.

kangaroo jack - a heavy-duty, lever-action jack.

kangaroo paws - belong to the genus Anigozanthos, which has 11 species. The closely related black kangaroo paw is Macropidia fulginosa. Kangaroo paws occur naturally only in the south-west of Western Australia, but grow in a variety of habitats and soil types. The size, flower-stalk height and colour of the flowers varies between the species. The overall colour of the flowers is influenced by fine, coloured hairs which cover the flowers and, sometimes, part of the stalk. The flowers appear over spring and summer.

Kangaroo River Nature Park - take the time to make the journey to Upper Kangaroo River and Flat Rock. At Barrengarry, turn into Upper River Road - this drive is approximately 34km round-trip from the village. You will drive past many of the dairy farms that line the river, as well as the escarpments surrounding the valley. The locality of Upper Kangaroo River was once home to many people, and even had its own primary school. Today it consists of a few houses, and the Upper River Community Hall (which can be hired out for events). Here you will also find picnic facilities and a unique wire suspension footbridge over the river. Located in New South Wales.

kangaroo steamer - a dish made from kangaroo meat.

kangaroo tick - any tick having the kangaroo or wallaby as host.

Kangaroo Valley - a pastoral village lying between the Shoalhaven coast and the Southern Highlands, nestled between Cambewarra and Barrengarry Mountains. The area is characterised by a patchwork quilt of farms on rolling pastures, and the town was granted National Trust status in 1977. Hampton Bridge, spanning the Kangaroo River, is the oldest and most photographed suspension bridge in Australia. Kangaroo Valley is close to the beaches of the Shoalhaven, the historic village of Berrima, and Jervis Bay. Located on the south coast of New South Wales, twenty minutes west of Nowra.

kangaroo vine - an evergreen climbing plant, Cissus antarctica, with tooth-edged leaves, grows in rainforests and damp gullies. Native grapes from the kangaroo vine were eaten by the Aborigines and the early settlers. They have a grape-like taste but can irritate the throat if eaten in large numbers. The larger stems, when cut into pieces and allowed to drain, produce drinking water. The grapes were sometimes made into jam by early settlers.

Kangaroo Wells - one of three known fossil sites in the Northern Territory, the others being Alcoota and Bullock Creek. Located on Deep Well Station.

kangaroo-hop - (of a car) jerky movement of a car due to uneven release of the clutch (or other fault).

kangaroo-rat - any of the small macropodoids of the family Potoridae, including the bettong and the potoroo.

Kanmantoo bioregion - temperate, well defined uplands of Cambrian and Late Proterozoic marine sediments, and a lateritized surface becoming increasingly dissected northwards, with eucalypt open forests and woodlands and heaths on mottled yellow and ironstone gravelly duplex soils in the wetter areas, and peppermint box and drooping she-oak on shallow rocky soils in drier areas. Extensively cleared for agriculture. Located in New South Wales.

Kanmantoo Fold Belt - rocks crop out in the north-west corner of New South Wales, extending from south of the Barrier Highway to north of Tibooburra. This belt includes Late Proterozoic to Early Palaeozoic deep water sediments, plus some volcanic and shallow marine to continental sedimentation during the Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician, when the Delamerian Orogeny caused folding and metamorphism. Sedimentation and volcanism associated with the development of the adjacent Lachlan Fold Belt subsequently affected this region. The Kanmantoo Fold Belt behaved as a relatively stable cratonic block after the Alice Springs-Kanimblan Orogeny. (Carboniferous).

kanooka - Tristraniopsis laurina, a small evergreen tree; upright when young, but exhibiting a widely spreading and dense canopy, with age. Bark is a smooth patchwork of pink-grey and cream; leaves are dark, shiny green; flowers are small and yellow, appearing in late summer. A good street tree, low enough to be used under powerlines. Also known as yellow gum.

kapok bush - Cochloprerum fraseri, is deciduous in the dry season, from May to August, and has distinctive bright-yellow flowers. Its large, fragile pods are filled with a dense, soft, cotton-like material.

karara - the shrub or small tree Acacia tetragonaphylla, which forms prickly thickets.

Karijini National Park - (formerly Hamersley Range) National Park is the second largest national park in Western Australia. Situated just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the park's climate can best be described as tropical semi-desert. A highly variable, mainly summer rainfall of 250–350mm, often associated with thunderstorms and cyclones, is accompanied by temperatures frequently topping 40 degrees Celsius. Karijini National Park protects many different wildlife habitats, landscapes, plants and animals of the Pilbara. Huge termite mounds are a feature of the landscape, and the rock piles of the rare pebble mound mouse may be found in spinifex country. In the north of the park small creeks hidden in the rolling hillsides—dry for most of the year—suddenly plunge into sheer-sided chasms up to 100m deep. These are the park's famous gorges. Rocks exposed at the gorges originated as fine-grained sediment which accumulated on an ancient sea floor 2500 million years ago. The gorges were eroded when a sharp drop in sea level caused the rivers to downcut rapidly—a process enhanced by the onset of a more arid climate, which depleted the protective vegetation cover on the valley sides. The park is the traditional home of the Banyjima, Kurrama and Innawonga Aboriginal people . The Banyjima name for the Hamersley Range is Karijini. Evidence of their early occupation dates back more than 20,000 years. During that period, Aboriginal land management practices such as 'fire stick farming', resulting in a diversity of vegetation types and stages of succession, have helped determine the nature of the plants and animals found in the park today.

karkalla - Carpobrotus Carpobrotus rossii, also known as coastal pigface, a common creeper of the beaches, dunes and headlands. The flowers, purple with many petals, appear in summer. Koories of Victoria used the leaves as a salad or they were cooked and eaten with meat. The fruit was eaten raw. C. Wilhelmi wrote (1860), "Pressing the fruit between their fingers, they drop the luscious flesh into the mouth. During the karkalla season, which lasts from January until the end of summer, the natives lead a comparatively easy life." Juice from the leaves was used to relieve stings.

karpe - 1. the parasitic fig tree Ficus pleurocarpa, that bears edible fruit and has a bark formerly used by Aborigines as blankets. 2. the wood of this tree.

Karraru - an Aboriginal people of South Australia.

karri - Eucalyptus diversicolor, one of the world's tallest hardwood tree species. It is native only to the wetter areas of south-western Australia. Most karri grows between Manjimup and Denmark, with outlying populations found as far west as Margaret River and as far east as the Porongurup Range. However, its development is best in the Manjimup-Pemberton-Walpole area. Karri occurs in patches, often mixed with other forest trees to make up a mosaic of forest formations, interspersed with sedgelands and heathlands. Karri forest understorey is particularly soft and lush. The Warren, Beedelup and Brockman national parks preserve some of Western Australia's best karri forest scenery.

karst formation - landforms created by solution of rock in which most of the drainage is by underground channels that may lead to the formation of caves. Usually refers to limestone karst, but it can occur in other rock types.

Karumba - the southern port of the Arafura Basin, situated on the mouth of the Norman River in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the centre of the Gulf's prawning industry. Part of the wetlands that extend inland for approximately 30km, the area consists of a series of meandering saltwater tidal estuaries, habitat of saltwater crocodiles and a vast array of bird species such as pelicans, brolgas and black swans. These wetlands are a resting area for migratory birds whose flight path to and from Asia and Australia passes over the Karumba wetlands. The Port of Karumba was once a refuelling and repair stop for the Empire Flying Boats that connected Sydney to Great Britain. During the war, this route was the only aerial connection Australia had with the rest of the world. Visited by the Macassan fleets from the Celebes prior to European discovery of Australia, the area is now the centre of the gulf's prawning and barramundi industries.

Karumba Basin - the Gulf of Carpentaria is underlain by two basins, the Jurassic/ Cretaceous Carpentaria basin and the overlying Cenozoic Karumba basin. The Karumba basin is sediment starved; subsidence exceeds the rate of sediment accumulation.

Kata Tjuta - "many heads" in the language of the traditional owners, is a group of more than 30 rounded, red, conglomerate masses of rock rising out of the desert plain in the Northern Territory. Some of the rocks are bunched close together with only narrow, precipitous crevices between. Others, rounded and polished by the wind, are spaced further apart. The highest is Mount Olga (1500 feet). Although they are quite close to each other Kata Tjuta and Uluru have quite different geological and human histories. Where Uluru is a sedimentary rock which has been tilted nearly 85°, Kata Tjuta has only been tilted some 20°, and they are made of a much coarser sediment and contain quite large pebbles of granite and basalt. Artistically, Kata Tjuta is noted for its engravings and its geometric rock piles, all of which are believed to have been created by the Spirit Ancestor during the Dreamtime, the time of creation.

Katherine - an outback town on the main road between Darwin and Alice Springs. Katherine is at the crossroads for more than 36 different Aboriginal cultural groups. These first inhabitants of the area based their seasonal movement, and therefore the emergence of their culture, upon the Katherine River. Approximately 25% of the population of Katherine is today of Aboriginal descent. White settlement of the town of Katherine occurred in 1878 with the completion of the Overland Telegraph and the arrival of Alfred Giles, the first cattle pastoralist. Katherine is situated 317km south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Katherine Gorge - a series of 13 gorges scoured into the sandstone by the action of the Katherine River. These gorges and the surrounding landscape have ceremonial significance to the local Jawoyn people, who are custodians of the Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk) National Park. Located 29km from Katherine. The gorges of