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Tjaynera Falls

waterfall in Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3082927 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tjaynera Falls is a waterfall on the Sandy Creek within Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Location and features

The waterfall descends from an elevation of 103 metres (338 ft) above sea level in one drop that ranges in height between 35–48 metres (115–157 ft).

Accessible by four-wheel drive trail, the falls are in the western portion of the park, 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Darwin.

See also

List of waterfalls

List of waterfalls in Australia

References

External links

"Litchfield National Park: Fact sheet" (PDF). Parks & Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory (PDF). Government of the Northern Territory. April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2014.

"Litchfield National Park". Parks and Wildlife Commission NT. Government of the Northern Territory.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tjaynera Falls” is waterfall in Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tjaynera, Falls and waterfall, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tjaynera, Falls and waterfall is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “waterfall in Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3082927. Authority coordinates are -13.252, 130.745. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tjaynera Falls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.