Judbarra National Park, previously known as Gregory National Park, is a stunning national park located in the Northern Territory of Australia, approximately 359 km south of Darwin.
Covering an area of 13,000 km² (1.3 million ha), it is the second-largest national park in the Northern Territory, after the famous Kakadu National Park.
The park spans the traditional lands of several Indigenous Australian groups, including Ngarinyman, Karrangpurru, Malngin, Wardaman, Ngaliwurru, Nungali, Bilinara, Gurindji, and Jaminjung. Judbarra is considered a meeting place of two Australian language families: Pama Nyungan and Non-Pama-Nyungan (Northern). The park is home to an extensive range of rock art, including those created by painting, stencilling, drawing, printing, and "pecking and pounding." The rock art of the Judbarra region represents a distinct art province.
Judbarra / Gregory National Park is situated in the transition between tropical and semi-arid zones, making it ecologically unique. The park is home to many species, including endangered Gouldian finch in small numbers, chestnut-backed buttonquail, partridge pigeon, yellow-rumped mannikin, and other savanna-biome-restricted or near-threatened species. BirdLife International has identified the park as an essential bird area (IBA) because of its eastern subspecies of the white-quilled rock-pigeon.
In 2018, a new plant species, called Solanum scalarium, also known as Garrarnawun bush tomato, was discovered in Garrarnawun Lookout