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.

Location and features

The waterfall descends from an elevation of above sea level in two drops that range in height between into a plunge pool. Accessed by sealed road, the falls are near the western boundary of the national park, approximately south of .

Tolmer Falls

The falls were named by explorer Frederick Henry Litchfield after his late father's colleague in the South Australia Police, Alexander Tolmer.

Tolmer Falls

The site is noted for the large colony of orange leaf-bat Rhinonicteris aurantia, which number in their thousands.

Tolmer Falls

See also

List of waterfalls of the Northern Territory

References

External links

Waterfalls of the Northern Territory

Plunge waterfalls

Litchfield National Park