Kakadu is the German word for
cockatoo
A cockatoo is any of the 21 species of parrots belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea ( true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up t ...
Kakadu may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, southeast of Darwin. It is a World Heritage Site. Kakadu is also gazetted as a locality, covering the same area as the national park, with 313 people recorded l ...
, a protected area
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Kakadu Highway
The Kakadu Highway is 209 kilometres long and extends from Pine Creek to Jabiru
The jabiru ( or ; ''Jabiru mycteria'') is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It sometimes wanders into the ...
, a highway in the Northern Territory
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Kakadu, Northern Territory
Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, southeast of Darwin. It is a World Heritage Site. Kakadu is also gazetted as a locality, covering the same area as the national park, with 313 people recorded li ...
, a locality
Plants and animals
Australia
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Kakadu dunnart
The Kakadu dunnart (''Sminthopsis bindi'') is a dunnart first described in 1994 and whose closest relative is the Carpentarian dunnart. It typically has a body length of 50-85mm with a tail 60-105mm long, for a total length between 110-190mm. It ...
, a species of dunnart
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Kakadu pebble-mound mouse
The Kakadu pebble-mound mouse (''Pseudomys calabyi'') is a rodent native to Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian ...
, a species of rodent
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Kakadu plum, a species of flowering plant
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Kakadu woolly-butt, a species of tree
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Kakadu sand goanna, a species of monitor lizard
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Kakadu vicetail, a species of dragonfly
Arts and entertainment
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Kakadu Variations, by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Kakadu und Kiebitz
''Cockatoo and Lapwing'' () is a 1920 German silent film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson, and Marga Köhler.
Cast
*Ossi Oswalda as Ossi Schönbeck
*Hans Brockmann as Hans Reimers, Doctor of Zoology
*Marga ...
'', a 1920 German silent film
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''Kakadu'' (Sculthorpe), an orchestral composition by Peter Sculthorpe
Other
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Kakadu language, an extinct Australian Aboriginal language
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Kakadu (people), an
Australian Aboriginal people
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia (co ...
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''Kakadu'' (sailplane), a large sailplane built in 1928 by
Julius Hatry
Julius Hatry (30 December 1906 – 7 November 2000) was a German aircraft designer and builder. He is remembered for his contributions to sailplane development in the early twentieth century and for building the world's first purpose-built roc ...
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Kakadu (software)
Kakadu is a closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard fully in part 1, and partly in parts 2–3. Kakadu is a trademark of NewSouth Innovations Ltd.
Kakadu was developed by and contin ...
, a software library for encoding and decoding JPEG 2000 images
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Kakadu Storm, a rugby team in the
Darwin Rugby League The Darwin Rugby League is a former rugby league competition based in Darwin, Northern Territory. The competition is administered by the Northern Territory Rugby League which is the body that takes care of the league's affairs. It administered the c ...
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