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A full-size operating hotel whose entire building is shaped like a saltwater crocodile.
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Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel
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12.67108° S, 132.83146° E
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The story
The whole hotel is the crocodile. Not a sculpture attached to a building – the building itself, laid out in the shape of a saltwater crocodile, with guests sleeping inside it.
The Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel at Jabiru is Indigenous-owned, and Parks Australia describes it as uniquely shaped to represent the saltwater crocodile. Guests enter through the mouth. The rooms occupy the body, and the plan reads unmistakably as the animal from the air – which is the only place the shape is fully legible, and is presumably why it looks the way it does on approach by light aircraft.
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Parks Australia describes the Indigenous-owned Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel as uniquely shaped to represent the saltwater crocodile. Accor confirms the hotel is currently operating at Flinders Street, Jabiru and provides its exact GPS location.
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This is an operating hotel with onsite parking. The published landmark coordinate is suitable for the hotel site, although general visitors should respect hotel operations and guest areas.
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