Crocodile Dundee: Kakadu to New York

New York reporter Sue Charlton travels to Walkabout Creek to meet the legendary "Crocodile" Dundee. On screen it is a Northern Territory township; in fact the first scenes were shot in McKinlay, Queensland, and the Federal Hotel was given a false façade to become the rough-and-tumble Walkabout Creek Inn. Here Sue finds that Mick's leg is not missing, only scarred, and a hunter who calls him a poacher is knocked out with one punch. After the film's worldwide success the pub took the name Walkabout Creek Hotel, and it is still McKinlay's best-known landmark.

Visitor guidance: The McKinlay pub now carries its film name, the Walkabout Creek Hotel.

Offended when Mick says a "sheila" could never survive the Outback, Sue sets off alone with his rifle, and Mick secretly follows to keep her safe. Their first night in Kakadu is spent near Anbangbang Billabong, with the huge Burrungui plateau, once called Nourlangie Rock, behind them. The crew shot at the end of the dry season because crocodiles were less active. The crocodile attack itself was filmed at Girraween Lagoon near Darwin, so this billabong marks the camp, not the attack.

Location precision: The film's first night is placed near this billabong, but the crocodile attack was shot at Girraween Lagoon, not here; the pin marks the billabong.

Visitor guidance: A marked 2.5 km circular walk circles the billabong, open in the dry season only; the Burrungui rock art is nearby.

Mick and Sue's destination in the bush is "Echo Lake", where the pair swim and Mick spears a barramundi. In real life it is Gunlom Falls in the south of Kakadu National Park, known in the 1980s as the UDP Falls. The cascade changes with the seasons, from a roaring waterfall to a gentle trickle down the cliffs.. Once the outback chapters end, Sue invites Mick to come to New York.

Visitor guidance: Reached by about 40 km of gravel road from the Kakadu Highway; access is restricted in the wet season (December to April).

Sue invites Mick to return with her to New York City on the pretext of wrapping up the story. After his first ever flight, Dundee touches down at Newark Liberty International Airport, in New Jersey. The production spent a further six weeks filming in New York, and the airport scenes were part of that shoot. Newark is one of the international airports serving the New York area, so the bushman's arrival was filmed in New Jersey.

Mick is put up, with no expense spared, at the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 59th Street. His suite, where he discovers what a bidet is, was built in a studio. The present building replaced an earlier hotel in 1905-1907, and it faces Central Park South at 768 Fifth Avenue. At the end of the film Mick checks out and tells the doorman, Irving, that he is going on walkabout around the United States.

Visitor guidance: The Plaza stands at 768 Fifth Avenue, facing Central Park South.

After an evening out, Mick asks the cab driver to take him to the nearest bar. It is by no means the nearest, but the film sends him all the way down to the East Village, to the 7B Horseshoe Bar, formerly known as PH Vazac's, at 108 Avenue B and Seventh Street. The bar sits at the southeast corner of Tompkins Square Park. It is the bar where Mick meets a man in drag.

Visitor guidance: The bar is at 108 Avenue B, at the corner of Seventh Street.

When Sue and Mick come up from Chambers Street subway station, an attempted mugging follows, and Mick sees it off. His New York days also bring a run-in with a pimp, but this stop is the mugging. The station entrance is beneath the white-tiled arches of the South Arcade under the Municipal Building, a 40-story, 580-foot tower at 1 Centre Street, east of Chambers Street.

Visitor guidance: The arcade is at the Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, at Chambers Street.

In the finale Mick heads west on Central Park South to Columbus Circle, the traffic circle at the southwest corner of Central Park, to find a subway. Sue runs after him and, unable to reach him through the crowd on the platform, has the onlookers relay her message to him. Mick then walks to her on the heads and raised hands of the crowd. The platform itself was shot elsewhere: the disused lower level of the 9th Avenue subway station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Location precision: The story places the finale at Columbus Circle, but the platform was filmed in a disused Brooklyn station; the pin marks the circle.

Visitor guidance: Columbus Circle is the traffic circle at the southwest corner of Central Park.