DESTINATION: Dunmarra

300 kilometres south of Katherine is Dunmarra, another small settlement on the historical Overland Telegraph Line. Today Dunmarra is little more than a roadhouse providing fuel, motel accommodation, a caravan park and other services to travellers. An interesting story is associated with the area’s name. Overland Telegraph linesman, Dan O’Mara, disappeared in the region in the early 1900s. Drover Noel Healy established a cattle station here in the 1930s and discovered O’Mara’s skeleton in the bush. The local Aboriginal people couldn’t pronounce ‘O’Mara’, their attempts sounded more like ‘Dunmarra’, and this was the name Healy christened his station with.

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There is a monument to the Overland Telegraph Line beside the Stuart Highway (Explorer’s Way) south of Dunmarra dedicated to Sir Charles Todd, Postmaster, General of the Province of South Australia, 1872.

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Dunmarra Wayside Inn, Katherine Region, Northern Territory

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Lying 310km from Darwin, Katherine is a centre for beef-cattle properties, produce farms and the Tindal RAAF Base. Katherine is also the gateway to Nitmiluk National Park. Renowned Katherine Gorge in Nitmiluk National Park, 29km SE, can be viewed by canoe, flat-bottomed tour boat, scenic flight or helicopter. Edith Falls, 62km to the north, is also in Nitmiluk National Park and worth a visit. more

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