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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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Wattie Creek, NT
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sheep and cattle farming
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Entered from deposit description on 29 August 2011
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The Australian Pastoral Directory
National Archives of Australia: http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs224.aspx (accessed on 29 August 2011)
ABC Rural Online: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2007/s2004219.htm (accessed on 29 August 2011)