Protected areas of the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory contains 95 seperate Protected Areas with a total area of 5,350,533 hectares (land area: 5,126,866 hectares – 3.81% of the territory’s area). Ten of these are National parks, totalling 1,962,204 hectares (1.46% of the territory’s area). Four are Aboriginal National Parks, totalling 531,485 hectares (0.39% of the territory’s area). Another four are Commonwealth National Parks (managed by the Australian National Parks & Wildlife Service – Commonwealth Government), totalling 2,114,276 hectares (1.57% of the territory’s area).
Note: with the forming of the new Mary River National Park from other Protected Areas the numbers will be: 86 Protected Areas, of which 11 are National Parks.
National Parks in the Northern Territory:
- Barranyi (North Island) (Aboriginal)
- Charles Darwin
- Davenport Murchison
- Djukbinj (Aboriginal)
- Dulcie Ranges
- Elsey
- Finke Gorge
- Gregory
- Gurig (Aboriginal)
- Jabiru (Commonwealth)
- Kakadu Holiday Village (Commonwealth)
- Kakadu (Commonwealth)
- Keep River
- Litchfield
- Mary River
- Nitmiluk (Aboriginal)
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta (Commonwealth)
- Watarrka
- West Macdonnell
The Northern Territory also has:
- 15 Conservation Reserves (incl. 1 aboriginal)
- 15 Historical Reserves
- 1 Hunting Reserve
- 1 Management Agreement Area
- 1 Marine Park
- 14 Nature Parks (incl. 1 aboriginal)
- 27 Other Conservation Reserves (OCA’s; incl. 1 combined OCA/Nature Park)
- 3 Protected Areas
See also National parks (Australia) for Parks in other states/territories.