Deposit N182 - Wave Hill Station deposit

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AU NBAC N182

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Wave Hill Station deposit

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  • 1952 - 1962 (Creation)

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Deposit

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One item only

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(1883 -)

Administrative history

Wave Hill Station is located approximately 600km south of Darwin in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. Wave Hill Station was established in 1883. Vesteys, a British pastoral company owned the cattle station since 1914 and ran the station through its subsidiary the Wave Hill Pastoral Co Ltd. In 1954 Vesteys took out the first pastoral development lease for its Wave Hill property. The station is most famous for being home of the ’Wave Hill Walk-off’ in 1966, when Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji spokesman, led a walk-off of 200 Aboriginal stockmen, house servants, and their families from Wave Hill as a protest against work and pay conditions.

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Wave Hill Station improvements book contains information such as construction costs and materials, plans and photographs of buildings, fences, bores and other structures.

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Researchers must sign an access agreement

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Digitised copy available at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/7270

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Note

Conservation treatment of this collection was generously funded by the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre in 2010.

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Entered from deposit description on 29 August 2011

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