History and the Landscape in Central Australia: A Study of the Material Evidence of European Culture and SettlementAspects of the historical geography of Central Australia; brief historical context and description of Aboriginal regional occupation - Aboriginal sites of significance mentioned; contact history sites - description, physical layout and history of Hermannsburg and Phillip Creek (Manga Manga); chapters on pastoral homesteads, wells on north-south stock route, mining at Arltunga and Tennant Creek, urbanisation of Alice Springs; cultural resource managment in Central Australia. |
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Chapter One A Setting and its story | 1 |
Chapter Two Before the Europeans | 11 |
Chapter Four Aborigines and Europeans at Hermannsburg | 18 |
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Aboriginal Adelaide House Albert Namatjira Alice Springs Telegraph Aranda Arltunga artefacts associated Australia Northern Territory Australian Heritage Commission Australian Inland Mission Barrow Creek Bonney buildings built bush timber camp Canberra Carl Strehlow Carment Cemetery Central Australia centre CHAPTER Charlotte Waters Commonwealth concrete floor Conservation Commission constructed corrugated galvanised iron Creek Telegraph Station cultural resource management Darwin Office early economic erected Europeans Finke River flagstone galvanised iron roof gold goldfield government battery Hartley Street School Hermannsburg historians kilometres kilometres south kitchen located Lutheran MacDonnell Ranges Manga Manda metres mining Mission National Estate National Trust nearby Notes on Visits original Overland Telegraph Line pastoral Phillip Creek places population railway region remains Residence sandstone settlement significance South Australia south of Tennant Springs Telegraph Station stock route structures Stuart surviving tank Tennant Creek Tennant Creek Telegraph timber framed Trust of Australia Tuxworth Uluru Walpiri White Range