Dunmarra Wayside Inn, Katherine Region, Northern Territory

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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.