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.
Walk this route with audio
Stories play automatically as you reach each stop — no tapping needed.
