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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Kakadu National Park' has mentioned 'Park' in the following places:
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| The park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory. | WIKI |
| The Ranger Uranium Mine, one of the most productive uranium mines in the world, is surrounded by the park. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Background 1.2 The arrival of non-Indigenous people 1.2.1 Explorers 1.2.2 Buffalo hunters 1.2.3 Missionaries 1.2.4 Pastoralists 1.3 Mining 2 Climate 3 Flora 4 Fauna 4.1 Mammals 4.2 Birds 4.3 Reptiles 4.4 Frogs 4.5 Fish 4.6 Insects 5 Environmental problems and threats 6 Landforms 7 Aboriginal rock art sites 8 Human impacts 8.1 Fire management 8.2 Tourism 9 Park management 9.1 Park use fee 9.2 General facilities 9.3 Camp sites 10 Administrative status 11 See also 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links | WIKI |
| The name Kakadu probably originates from the mispronunciation of Gaagudju, which is the name of an Aboriginal language spoken in the north-western part of the park. | WIKI |
| The cultural and natural values of Kakadu National Park were recognised internationally when the park was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. | WIKI |
| Kakadu was listed in three stages: stage 1 in 1981, stage 2 in 1987, and the entire park in 1992. | WIKI |
| The areas of the park that are owned by Aboriginal people are leased by the traditional owners to the Director of National Parks to be managed as a national park. | WIKI |
| The Aboriginal traditional owners of the park are descendants of various clan groups from the Kakadu area and have longstanding affiliations with this country. | WIKI |
| About 500 Aboriginal people live in the park; many of them are traditional owners. | WIKI |
| Park Management is directed by the Kakadu Board of Management. | WIKI |
| A more plausible, if prosaic, explanation for the origin of the name of the park is that Leichhardt applied the colloquial German term for a cockatoo, although this is unlikely to sit well with the indigenous historians. | WIKI |
| Among the artefacts from archaeological digs in the park are glass and metal fragments that probably came from the Macassans, either directly or through trade with the Cobourg Peninsula people. | WIKI |
| Soon after, a similar camp was started at Patonga and at Muirella Park. | WIKI |
| Small-scale gold mining began at Imarlkba, near Barramundi Creek, and Mundogie Hill in the 1920s and at Moline (previously called Eureka and Northern Hercules mine), south of the park, in the 1930s. | WIKI |
| Kakadu's flora is among the richest in northern Australia with more than 1700 plant species recorded which is a result of the park's geological, landform and habitat diversity. | WIKI |
| Some animals in the park are rare, endangered, vulnerable or endemic. | WIKI |
| Responding to the extreme weather conditions experienced in the park, many animals are active only at particular times of the day or night or at particular times of the year. | WIKI |
| About 74 mammal speciesxe2x80x94marsupials and placental mammalsxe2x80x94have been recorded in the park. | WIKI |
| Since the arrival of the cane toad in the park, many populations of reptiles have crashed. | WIKI |
| Although introduced fish have been found in most Australian waterways, none have been recorded in the park. | WIKI |
| Perhaps the most striking insect-created features in the park are the termite mounds. | WIKI |
| The mounds in the southern part of the park are particularly large and impressive. | WIKI |
| The largest waterfall in the park, Jim Jim Falls | WIKI |
| The controversial Ranger Uranium mine, one of the world's most productive Uranium mines, is surrounded by the park, and presents a significant management challenge both now and into the future, with the question of how to safely contain low-level radioactive wastewater. | WIKI |
| The escape of contaminated wastewater into the Park's wetlands, which may become more likely under Climate-change induced rainfall events, would have a devastating impact on the Park's biodiversity. | WIKI |
| [20] The escarpment rises 330 metres above the plateau and extends approximately 500 kilometres along the East edge of the park and on into Arnhem Land. | WIKI |
| Travelling anywhere in Kakadu, you cannot help noticing the lowlandsxe2x80x94they make up nearly 70% of the park. | WIKI |
| The southern hills and basins cover a large area in the south of the park, including the headwaters of the South Alligator River. | WIKI |
| Ubirr is a group of rock outcrops in the northeast of the park, on the edge of the Nadab floodplain. | WIKI |
| Termite cathedral mounds in an area blackened by the park's annual winter bushfires. | WIKI |
| Fire is part of the landscape of Kakadu National Park, as the park contains large areas of woodland and grassy plains that are subject to long periods of dry hot weather. | WIKI |
| There are many beautiful waterfalls and gorges within the park that are popular with visitors, such as Maguk, Gunlom Falls, Twin Falls and Jim Jim Falls. | WIKI |
| The sites of Nourlangie and Ubirr are among the most visited locations in the park. | WIKI |
| There are several accommodation options in the park, mostly found in the town of Jabiru, as well as a range of services to cater to visitor's needs. | WIKI |
| Many of the park's sites are accessible by standard two wheel drive vehicles, but areas like Twin and Jim Jim Falls and Gunlom require four wheel drive vehicles. | WIKI |
| Park management[edit] | WIKI |
| Title to Aboriginal land in the park is held by Aboriginal land trusts. | WIKI |
| Parks Australia and the Aboriginal traditional owners of Kakadu are committed to the principle of joint management of the park and arrangements to help this happen are highlighted in Kakadu's Plan of Management. | WIKI |
| The Kakadu Board of Management, which has an Aboriginal majority (ten out of fifteen members), representing the Aboriginal traditional owners of land in the park, was established in 1989. | WIKI |
| The Board determines policy for managing the park and is responsible, along with the Director, for preparing plans of management for the park. | WIKI |
| The Plan of Management is the main policy document for the park and strives to balance strategic or long-term goals and tactical or day to day goals. | WIKI |
| Park use fee[edit] | WIKI |
| Kakadu National Park re-introduced a park use fee from April 2010, to help manage the natural and cultural values of the park environment and improve visitor services. | WIKI |
| Like many World Heritage sites around the world, including Yellowstone National Park, Serengeti National Park, Stonehenge, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Pyramids of Egypt xe2x80x93 the park use fee helps to maintain world-best management practices and facilities for the more than 200,000 visitors who experience Kakadu each year. | WIKI |
| There are a wide variety of designated camping sites throughout the park. | WIKI |
| Some of the park's campsites charge a nominal fee as these have shower and toilet facilities, others are free, however they have limited or no facilities. | WIKI |
| Kakadu has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, and many of the parkxe2x80x99s extensive rock art sites date back thousands of years. | UNESCO |
| The park also has a huge diversity of flora and is one of the least impacted areas of the northern part of the Australian continent. | UNESCO |
| Many of the art and archaeological sites of the park are thousands of years old, showing a continuous temporal span of the hunting and gathering tradition from the Pleistocene Era until the present. | UNESCO |
| The vast expanse of wetlands to the north of the park extends over tens of kilometres and provides habitat for millions of waterbirds. | UNESCO |
| With extensive and relatively unmodified natural vegetation and largely intact faunal composition, the park provides a unique opportunity to investigate large-scale evolutionary processes in a relatively intact landscape. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (x) : The park is unique in protecting almost the entire catchment of a large tropical river and has one of the widest ranges of habitats and greatest number of species documented of any comparable area in tropical northern Australia. | UNESCO |
| Huge concentrations of waterbirds make seasonal use of the parkxe2x80x99s extensive coastal floodplains. | UNESCO |
| Although the South Alligator River drainage basin is contained within the park, headwaters of other rivers lie outside. | UNESCO |
| There are also important natural values in the Cobourg Peninsula and in some of the coastal wetlands to the west of the park. | UNESCO |
| In addition to the uranium mine at Ranger, which is excised from the property, there is one other excised lease at Jabiluka which is located close to an important floodplain inside the park. | UNESCO |
| The Director of National Parks performs functions and exercises powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act) in accordance with the parkxe2x80x99s management plan and relevant decisions of the Kakadu National Park Board of Management. | UNESCO |
| A majority of Board members represent the parkxe2x80x99s traditional owners. | UNESCO |
| These arrangements ensure that the park has effective legal protection, a sound planning framework and that management issues are addressed. | UNESCO |
| The quality of the parkxe2x80x99s management and protection has been widely recognised. | UNESCO |
| Visitors are encouraged to enjoy the park in ways that do not adversely affect its natural and cultural values; | UNESCO |
| Park managers are implementing a climate change strategy for the park that recommends a range of adaptation, mitigation and communication actions to manage the anticipated consequences of climate change; | UNESCO |
| Monitoring programmes are in place to determine cane toad distribution and the impacts on native wildlife within different habitats of the park. | UNESCO |