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Controlled burning  
   

Controlled burning

The rangers burn a lot of the areas in the NP at the end of the wet season, this is to regenerate growth in the area, and to create a safe zones in case of a real bush fire
Kununurra, Katherine, Ntmiluk, Litchfield National Park – the home stretch to Darwin

April 12th 2013
We reluctantly left Lake Argyle and headed back into Kununurra to pick up my phone, but first we visited the Minjira National Park, a.k.a the “mini Bungles”, a consolation prize for the real thing still being inaccessible by road. It was a short hot walk, the rock formations were very cool indeed, and after a quick visit to the police station to collect my phone (which smelled like beer but wa ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Litchfield National Park

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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