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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Song of the Kurnmarra Corroboree

Northern Territory

Places Charlotte Waters

Language Group Arrernte

Institution Royal Geographical Society of South Australia

 

Native women quarrelling.

Northern Territory

Places Charlotte Waters

Language Group Arrernte

Institution Royal Geographical Society of South Australia

 

Song relating to the tradition of the great snake of Okilcha.

Central Australia, Northern Territory

Places Charlotte Waters; McKenzie’s Waterhole

Totems Mythical Snake, wollonqua, Woma Snake, Aspidites ramsyi, arenana

Language Group Arrernte

Institution Royal Geographical Society of South Australia

Place Details

Specific Location

Charlotte Waters

State

Northern Territory

Indigenous Name

Alknulurilirra

Latitude

-25.92339433

Longitude

134.9184448

Totems

• Water, quatcha, kwaty, kwatye
• Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, erlea, ankerr, atnhelengkwe

Fieldwork

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