Mataranka springs

Mataranka

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May 16th 2013
Arrived in Mataranka and settled into a small C/P only minutes from Bitter Springs thermal waters about 3 ks from Mataranka and situated in the Elsey National Park,very welcoming staff who took time to advise us of the local attractions.The author Jeannie Gunn published an autobiographical novel , We of the Never Never which was about her life on Elsey Station,about which a film was made.Mataranka ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more