KAKADU
NORTHERN TERRITORY AUSTRALIA
Image Number 178
Located 240 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia’s tropical north, Kakadu National Park is Australia’s largest terrestrial national park. Kakadu covers almost 20,000 square kilometres and is a place of enormous ecological and biological diversity. It extends from the coast and estuaries in the north through floodplains, billabongs and lowlands to rocky ridges and stone country in the south. These landscapes are home to a range of rare and endemic plants and animals, including more than one-third of Australia's bird species and one-quarter of its freshwater and estuarine fish species.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Captured by Atticus Webb on a tripod mounted Zeiss Contax 645 medium format camera with Zeiss 80mm lens at F5.6 with an exposure of 1 second. File size 260 meg, 8 bit. The image was registered on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back at ISO 100. The combination of sensor size and megapixels from this back captures approximately five times more detail than the highest resolution 35mm SLR camera currently available – and explains the exceptional resolution of the image.