Mount Ebenezer
25°10′37″S 132°40′37″E / 25.177°S 132.677°E
Mount Ebenezer Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory.
It is situated about 171 kilometres (106 mi) north east of Yulara and 205 kilometres (127 mi) south west of Alice Springs. The lease shares a boundary with other pastoral leases including Angas Downs to the west, Lyndavale to the south, Erldunda to the south east and Palmer Valley to the north west. The Lasseter Highway bisects the property from east to west.[1]
The property takes its name from the 100 metres (328 ft) peak Mount Ebenezer that is found in the Baselow Range within the station boundaries. Mount Ebenezer is named after Ebenezer Flint who was delivering supplies to telegraph stations in the area in 1871.[2]
The pastoralist, Richard Warburton, took up Erldunda Station to the east of Mount Ebenezer in 1822. Warburton is thought to have passed through the area while mustering stray cattle. William Liddle took up the nearby Angas Downs Station in 1922.[2]
The Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse was closed for several months in 2012. When William O'Donnell signed a lease to reopen the roadhouse he was driven from the property by a spear wielding Indigenous man. The owners of the roadhouse terminated the contract shortly afterward.[3]
As of 2014 the 1,640 square kilometres (633 sq mi) property was still on the market along with at least 15 others in the Kimberley and Northern Territory.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Northern Territory Pastoral Properties" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ a b "Mount Ebenezer History". AusEmade. 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ Brendan Phelan (17 December 2012). "Trouble at Mount Ebenezer". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ James Nason (28 March 2014). "NT and Kimberley - 15 Pastoral holdings for sale". Beef Central. Nascon Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 13 March 2015.