Kakadu is the German word for

cockatoo A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species 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 the orde ...

Kakadu may refer to:

Places

Australia

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 liv ...

, a protected area *

Kakadu Highway The Kakadu Highway is 209 kilometres long and extends from Pine Creek to Jabiru, entering Kakadu National Park as the highway crosses the Mary River. The highway is signed and mapped as State Route 21.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 liv ...

, a locality

Plants and animals

Australia

* Kakadu dunnart, a species of dunnart * Kakadu pebble-mound mouse, a species of rodent * Kakadu plum, a species of flowering plant * Kakadu woolly-butt, a species of tree * Kakadu sand goanna, a species of monitor lizard * Kakadu vicetail, a species of dragonfly

Arts and entertainment

Kakadu Variations "Kakadu Variations" is the nickname given to Ludwig van Beethoven's set of variations for piano trio on the theme "Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu" by Wenzel Müller. The ''Variations'' was published in 1824 as Opus 121a, the last of Beethoven's pia ...

, by Ludwig van Beethoven * ''

Kakadu und Kiebitz ''Cockatoo and Lapwing'' (german: Kakadu und Kiebitz) 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, ...

'', a 1920 German silent film * ''Kakadu'' (Sculthorpe), an orchestral composition by Peter Sculthorpe

Other

Kakadu language Gaagudju (also spelt Gagadu, Gaguju, and Kakadu) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the environs of Kakadu National Park, in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Country and status Explorer Baldwin Spencer incorrectly ascribe ...

, an extinct Australian Aboriginal language *

Kakadu (people) The Gaagudju, also known as the Kakadu, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. There are four clans, being the Bunitj or Bunidj, the Djindibi, and two Mirarr clans. Three languages are spoken among the Mirarr or Mirrar cl ...

, an

Australian Aboriginal people Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

* ''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 ro ...

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 conti ...

, a software library for encoding and decoding JPEG 2000 images *

Kakadu Storm Kakadu is the German word for cockatoo Kakadu may refer to: Places Australia * Kakadu National Park, a protected area * Kakadu Highway, a highway in the Northern Territory * Kakadu, Northern Territory, a locality Plants and animals Australia ...

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