Cape Crawford, Roadhouse settlement in Northern Territory, Australia

Cape Crawford is a remote settlement in the Roper Gulf Region of the Northern Territory, essentially a roadhouse for travellers rather than a permanent town. It sits where the Carpentaria Highway meets the Tablelands Highway, about 120 km inland from the coast and roughly 110 km south-west of Borroloola. The surrounding country is savannah woodland with rock escarpments, waterfalls and waterholes, and the sandstone formations of the 'Lost City' lie nearby.

Cape Crawford takes its name from Lindsay Crawford, who crossed the region in the 1880s. He called the area a cape because it lies at the northern end of the Abner Ranges. The site later became a stop on the Carpentaria and Tablelands highways.

Cape Crawford takes its name from Lindsay Crawford, who crossed the region in the 1880s and called it a cape because it sits at the northern end of the Abner Ranges. Today the settlement is essentially a roadhouse for travellers, and most of its few residents work at the Heartbreak Hotel.

Access to the Lost City formations requires helicopter tours, as ground travel to these remote rock formations is not practical. The Heartbreak Hotel nearby provides the closest lodging option for visitors to the area.

The "Lost City" formations of Limmen National Park, reachable by helicopter from Cape Crawford, are sandstone outcrops dated to about 1.4 billion years ago. The settlement itself has few permanent residents, since most people stay only for work at the Heartbreak Hotel.