Spencer & Gillen

A journey through Aboriginal Australia

Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory

Notes

F.J. Gillen was stationed at the Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station between 1875 and 1892. Two years later the Horn Expedition, of which W.B. Spencer was a member, camped one mile north of here on there way to Alice Springs. Spencer corresponded with the Charlotte Waters Telegraphist Paddy Byrne for many years and in 1901 the Spencer and Gillen Expedition stayed here for a number of weeks. Norman Tindale in his Cockatoo Creek expedition (1931) journal recorded 'Alkngulura' as the name of Charlotte Waters, and translated this as "Alknga – eye – ulura - ?hill". TGH Strehlow was told by Tom Bagot Injola in 1968 that the waterholes close to the Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station were - from east to west - known as 'Alkiljauwurera, Alkngolulura and Untupera'.

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Place Details

Specific Location
Charlotte Waters
State
Northern Territory
Indigenous Name
Alknulurilirra
Latitude
-25.92339433
Longitude
134.9184448
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Fieldwork

  • Spencer and Gillen Expedition 1901-02
  • Horn Expedition 1894