Napperby Station

Not to be confused with Napperby, South Australia.

Napperby Station is located in Northern Territory
Napperby Station
Napperby Station
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Location in Northern Territory[1]

Napperby Station, also known as Napperby, is a 5,500 square kilometres (2,124 sq mi) pastoral lease used as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.

History

The station was established on Anmatyerre tribal land at the beginning of the 20th Century. The Chisholm family owned Napperby Station "on and off" from 1948 til 2016.[2] The anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow visited the station on his first fieldwork trip in 1932 to record songs and Anengkerr (dreaming) stories from the elder Friday Mpetyan.

Non-exclusive Native title was granted by the Federal Court of Australia to the Anmatyerr and Arrernte people over Napperby Station in 2013 by consent. Both claims were first filed in 2005 after mining leases were granted in the area. The Central Land Council submitted new applications for native title rights over the whole pastoral lease in 2011.[3] The court sat at the small local community of Laramba.[4]

Current use

As of 2016 the station was managed by Roy and Janet Chisholm.[5] They run Santa Gertrudis cattle on the property.[2] Napperby was sold for A$20 million to Tim Edmunds, a local pastoralist, in 2017.[6]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Place Names Register Extract for "Napperby" (homestead)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Lifelong learning: you can teach an old dog new tricks!" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  3. ^ Brain, Caddie (2 July 2013). "Native title recognised over NT cattle stations". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Rural. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Native Title recognition at Napperby Station". Central Land Council. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  5. ^ Finnane, Kieran (12 July 2012). "Can Bess Price wrest Stuart from Labor?". Alice Springs News. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  6. ^ Fitzgerald, Daniel; Burton, Lydia (23 October 2017). "NT's Napperby Station sells for $20 million". ABC News. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri / Tjapaltjarri Dreaming". Aboriginal Art Australia. Retrieved 7 January 2018.