The Bawinanga Ranger’s Station is located at Nangak 15km from the coastal community of Maningrida in central Arnhem Land. The nearest city is Darwin some 250km to the south-west. It is a remote community with road access cut-off by rain and rising rivers from December to April each year. Access during these times is by sea or air.
Located in the hot-humid tropics of Australia’s far north the Ranger’s Station experiences the extremes of a tropical climate: hot, humid and very wet from December to March when torrential downpours dump almost two metres of water on the land, and very dry from May to August. The periods between the wet and dry seasons experience high humidity, extreme levels of solar radiation and little, if any, rainfall. The diurnal range is low with a mean annual temperature of 30°C and the area is subject to the destructive winds of tropical cyclones.