A 24-year-old British tourist filmed herself as she was bitten by a five-foot crocodile while walking alongside a shallow creek in northeast Australia.

The footage showed the crocodile suddenly emerge and snap at the woman as she walked beside a creek at Cape Tribulation, a popular coastal parkland in the state of Queensland.

She was bitten on the top of her left leg.

The video was posted by Ally Bullifent, a friend from Salisbury in Wiltshire, who wrote: “Leah gets bitten by a croc @ Cape Tribulation”. Alongside the video, a photograph showed the woman's punctured leg.

The woman was described by local media as a British tourist.