Ubirr Rock Art & Nadab Lookout Walk
Walk to Ubirr in the East Alligator region — the finest accessible Aboriginal rock art gallery in Australia — with paintings spanning 20,000 years on the sandstone walls of a sacred Bininj site.
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Ubirr Site Entry
Ubirr is a World Heritage site within a World Heritage national park — the rock art galleries at the base of the sandstone outlier are among the most significant examples of Aboriginal rock art in the world.
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Main Gallery Rock Art
The main gallery contains X-ray art paintings showing the internal organs of fish, kangaroos, and turtles — a distinctive style developed by the Bininj people over thousands of years and still practiced by some artists today.
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Rainbow Serpent Painting
A painting of the Rainbow Serpent (Almudj) is one of the most powerful images in the gallery — the serpent is the creator of the waterways and a central figure in the Bininj Dreamtime stories associated with this landscape.
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Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Image
A painting of a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) dates from before the species became extinct on the mainland 2,000 years ago — the image provides evidence of the thylacine's former range across northern Australia.
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Nadab Lookout
The Nadab Lookout above Ubirr provides the most spectacular view in Kakadu — the entire South Alligator floodplain stretches to the horizon, with the floodwaters gleaming in the afternoon light and the Arnhem Land escarpment rising to the east.
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Sunset Over the Floodplain
Ubirr is one of the two best sunset viewing sites in Kakadu — watching the sun descend over the floodplain from the Nadab Lookout, with the rock art in the gallery below, connects the ancient and the spectacular in one place.