Tolmer Falls | |
Photo Width: | 250px |
Map: | Northern Territory |
Relief: | yes |
Map Width: | 250px |
Coordinates: | -13.2056°N 130.7144°W |
Location: | Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia |
Type: | Plunge |
Height: | 32- |
Number Drops: | 2 |
Watercourse: | Tolmer Creek |
The Tolmer Falls is a plunge waterfall on the Tolmer Creek that is located in the Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The waterfall descends from an elevation of above sea level in two drops that range in height between 32-[1] into a plunge pool. Accessed by sealed road, the falls are near the western boundary of the national park, approximately south of .
The falls were named by explorer Frederick Henry Litchfield after his late father's colleague in the South Australia Police, Alexander Tolmer.
The site is noted for the large colony of orange leaf-bat Rhinonicteris aurantia, which number in their thousands.[2]