National Park "Lichfield", which covers an area of 1500 sq km, is located near the town of Batchelor, 100 km South-West of Darwin. Each year the Park is visited by more than 260 thousand people.
According to the beliefs inhabit these places of aboriginal tribes Mac Mac Marananga, Virat and Very wondrous landscape, plants and animals of the Park were created by the souls of their ancestors who live here today.
Taken under protection in 1986, the national Park is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, one of the first researchers of the Northern Territories of Australia in the mid 19th century. He was a member of the first European expedition heading for the Northern tip of the continent, to establish a colony on the cliff escaped the mouth of the Adelaide river river. All previous attempts to establish a permanent settlement have failed. The expedition reached the area, nowadays known as the national Park "Lichfield", in September 1865. The discovery here of copper and tin has led to the creation of several small mining enterprises, and later in the 1870s he began to develop agriculture. Mining was stopped in 1951 after severe flooding flooded most of the mines. Today in Bamboo Bay the remains of the old tin mine as a reminder of the deplorable living conditions of the pioneers of these places. In 1948 in the North-Western part of the Park began cutting down forests of cypress and pine trees of Leichhardt, and in 1949 on the Eastern border of the Park discovered uranium deposits – there was opened the first in Australia a fully operational uranium mine, Rum jungle, which existed until 1971.
Today the national Park "Litchfield" - a large reserve, protecting the wildlife of Northern Australia. Central sandy plateau are covered with rich forests dominated by various species of eucalyptus trees, and plants with unusual names - the banksias, grevillia and Terminalia. Islands of relict monsoon forests thrive in deep narrow gorges created over thousands of years by the power of water falling from the cliffs. Here you can see a Lily and graceful orchids growing among pantanaw and sandulovich trees.
Among the wild animals living in the Park highlands, kangaroo, Wallaby, sugar, flying squirrels, matchvalue possums, marsupial mouse, black and red flying foxes, dingoes. In the caves near the waterfall Tolmer falls live rare orange ordinary listeasy.
"Lichfield is also the habitat of hundreds of species of birds. Black kites and other birds of prey are regular visitors of these places during the dry season. Yellow and Fig Orioles, Pacific cuckoo, shining Drongo, dollarbird and rainbow bee-eater inhabit secluded place near the waterfalls.
Popular tourist places– wangi falls, Tolmer, Florence falls and the Beauly Rockhal – chosen birds and reptiles. In the present time, Fig Orioles and the Torres Strait pigeons share here fruits and berries with these nocturnal mammals like the Northern spotted marten, brown Bandicoot and ecohostel opossum. In the river Finniss river is inhabited by a huge saltwater crocodiles. Another popular among the visitors of the place – the termite mounds. These wedge-shaped mounds created by magnetic termites, built strictly North-South.
Most of the attractions of the Park are connected by asphalt road and is easily accessible.