Cobourg Peninsula

The Cobourg Peninsula is located 350 kilometres (217 mi) east of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia.

It is deeply indented with coves and bays, covers a land area of about 2,100 square kilometres (811 sq mi), and is virtually uninhabited with a population ranging from about 20 to 30 in five family outstations, but without any notable settlement or village.

[2] All of Cobourg Peninsula is part of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, which also encompasses a few nearshore islands.

It is home to a large variety of sea life and the world's largest herd of pure-strain banteng (wild cattle).

While it is only sparsely inhabited today, it was once the site of two failed attempts at founding a major trading port on its northern shores, Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay (1827-1829) and Fort Victoria at Port Essington (1838-1849), the ruins of which are still accessible today.