Nourlangie
Sandstone outlier in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory; in Life on Air the BBC team’s base camp in the Top End.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life on Air | David Attenborough | setting | The BBC team’s base camp in the Top End. |
Life on Air — David Attenborough (2002)
Source: Original · Readwise highlight
We based ourselves at a disused logging camp at a place called Nourlangie about fifty miles from the north coast, close to the South Alligator River and from there drove into the bush country to camp wherever we wished.
- Role: setting
- In the book: The team’s base for filming in the Top End in the dry season, sleeping under mosquito nets. Here they film water buffalo, magpie geese in the lagoons, and explore rock paintings. Bob Saunders’ constipation leads to the buffalo dung joke.
- Why it matters: The base for the whole Kakadu sequence; the text also records that the buffalo were later exterminated and the area became a national park.