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Savanna
Woodlands: Woodlands makeup nearly 80% of this
park. Mostly eucalypts and tall grasses. Here the woodland
support a large range of wildlife and a greater variety of
plants than else where in the park.
Monsoon
Forests: These forests occur in small pockets.
Birds and Flyying Foxes link the plants by dispersing it's
pollen.
Stone
Coountry:
At the east of the park's highway a large dominating escarpment
of standstone "Arnhem Land Plateau" exists. From
30m to 300 m it covers the historical spiritual drawings of
Ubirr and Nourlangie.
Tidal
Flats and Coast:Kakadu
protects around 500 sq km of estuarine and costal areas. Most
of which are mangrove lined forests forming an excellent nursury
for fish. kakadu's wetlands include billabongs, floodplains,
rivers, estuarine and coastal areas. These areas are significantly
imortant and recognised as areas ofr mirgratory birds.
Floodplains
and Billabongs:
These floodplains tend to undergo dramatic seasonal changes.
This can be viewed from the Arnhem Highway when passing the
South Alligator floodplain. After the wet season rainfalls,
a sea flows over the plains for hundreds of ksquare kilometres
in patches. When these plains start to dry out the waterbirds
and crocodiles seek refuge in remainingareas such as the renowned
Yellow Water Billabong.
Southern
Hills and Ridges: In the south of Kakadu National
Park, hill sand broken ridge lines are a result off millions
of years of erosion.the unusaul geology of this area is reflected
int he diversity of habitats and the presence of plants and
animals that do not occur anywhere else in the world.
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