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Litchfield National Park Northern Territory | |
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Nearest town or city | Adelaide River |
Coordinates | 13°16′45″S 130°52′36″E / 13.27917°S 130.87667°E |
Established | 29 July 1991[1] |
Area | 1,458.47 km2 (563.1 sq mi)[1] |
Visitation | 329,600 (in 2017)[2] |
Managing authorities | Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory |
Website | Litchfield National Park |
See also | Protected areas of the Northern Territory |
Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1500 km2, is near the township of Batchelor, 100 km south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Each year the park attracts over 260,000 visitors.
Proclaimed a national park in 1986, it is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a Territory pioneer, who explored areas of the Northern Territory from Escape Cliffs in Van Diemen Gulf to the Daly River in 1864.
Traffic counters located along Peninsula and Batchelor road.