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Rum Jungle

Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0

63% trees around it and 291 species recorded.

73Forestyas Score

ForestWildBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km63%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded291
  • Altitude87 m

The forest around

63% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 66%Grassland 31%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Built-up 1%Trees 62%Grassland 36%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Trees 64%Grassland 35%Bare ground 0%Trees 68%Grassland 31%Wetland 0%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%63%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km62%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km68%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees62%
  • Grassland36%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

291 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Bluestem
BluestemAndropogon gayanus501 recordsJose Hernandez @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Eucalyptus miniata
Eucalyptus miniataEucalyptus miniata17 recordsMueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896 · No restrictions
Livistona humilis
Livistona humilisLivistona humilis15 recordsJ Brew from near Seattle, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Buchanania obovata
Buchanania obovataBuchanania obovata12 recordsMargaretRDonald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Corymbia foelscheana
Corymbia foelscheanaCorymbia foelscheana9 recordsD. Greig · CC BY 3.0 au
Cycas armstrongiiVU
Cycas armstrongiiCycas armstrongii8 recordsJohn Tann from Sydney, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Eucalyptus tetrodonta
Eucalyptus tetrodontaEucalyptus tetrodonta8 recordsMaiden, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1859-1925 · No restrictions
Corymbia polycarpa
Corymbia polycarpaCorymbia polycarpa8 recordsGeekstreet · CC BY-SA 4.0
Petalostigma pubescens
Petalostigma pubescensPetalostigma pubescens7 recordsEthel Aardvark · CC BY 3.0
Red grass
Red grassThemeda triandra6 recordsPeripitus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Typhonium praetermissumTyphonium praetermissum40 records
Cenchrus pedicellatusCenchrus pedicellatus13 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 63%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 291Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 87 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan30°25°354 mm
  2. Feb30°24°337 mm
  3. Mar31°24°261 mm
  4. Apr31°22°80 mm
  5. May32°19°20 mm
  6. Jun32°17°1 mm
  7. Jul34°17°1 mm
  8. Aug35°18°1 mm
  9. Sep38°22°14 mm
  10. Oct38°25°54 mm
  11. Nov36°25°134 mm
  12. Dec33°25°269 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rum Jungle.

Locality in the Northern Territory of Australia

Rum Jungle is a forest in Australia.

Seen from space, 63% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

291 species have been recorded around it: 138 plants, 2 fungi, 133 birds and 18 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bluestem, Eucalyptus miniata and Livistona humilis.

The best time to walk is from May to September.

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Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Rum Jungle seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 5campsites within 10 kmRum Jungle Ridge, Banyan Caravan Park, BIG4 Batchelor Holiday Park and 2 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmBatchelor Resort, Batchelor Butterfly Farm, Rum Jungle Bungalows and 1 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Rum Jungle.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Mount Fitch7.1 kmMount Deane12 kmMount Minza17 kmMount Durand19 kmMount Gunn22 kmMount Woods22 kmMount Knuckey22 kmMount Mabel23 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2175585) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,208 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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