The waterfalls
A green pool.
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Litchfield National Park covers about 1,500 square kilometres near the town of Batchelor, about 100 km south-west of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. More than 329,000 people visit each year, most on day trips from Darwin. It became a national park in 1986 and is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a 19th-century explorer of the Territory. It matters greatly to the Kungarakan and Marranunggu peoples. It is known for waterfalls that drop into rock pools and for magnetic termite mounds that all face north to south. You see twin waterfalls falling from a red-brown cliff into a deep green pool in rainforest, and streams running between rounded rocks. On an open grassy plain stand hundreds of flat grey mounds like gravestones, and other huge brown mounds taller than a person. It is about 71 km from Darwin in a straight line. Swimming is allowed in some pools in the dry season only, as park signs show.
A green pool.
Like gravestones.
Among the rocks.
Near Batchelor, south-west of Darwin, Australia
They all face north to south.
In some pools in the dry season only.