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HUMPTY DOO, NT

VISITOR INFORMATION

There is no visitor information centre at Humpty Doo, so instead see Tourism Top End, 6 Bennett Street, Darwin. Ph: 1300 138 886

CONSIDER THE VALUE of an Aussie ‘Big Thing’. Most Northern Territory visitors roar through the town of Humpty Doo en route to Kakadu National Park and the Adelaide River’s famed jumping crocodiles. But some, intrigued by the town’s remarkable Big Boxing Croc and tropical agriculture history, find it to be a roadside stop worth taking. Humpty Doo, known locally as

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