Wave Hill Station

Wave Hill Station, mostly referred to as Wave Hill, is a pastoral lease in the Northern Territory operating as a cattle station. The property is best known as the scene of the Wave Hill Walk-Off, a strike by Indigenous Australian workers for better pay and conditions, which in turn was an important influence on Aboriginal land rights in Australia.

It is located about 31 kilometres (19 mi) east of Kalkaringi, 204 kilometres (127 mi) south east of Timber Creek and about 600 kilometres (373 mi) south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

The station occupies an area of 13,500 square kilometres (5,212 sq mi) and encompasses part of the Victoria River. which bisects the station. The country is a high open downs with basalt plains and covered in mitchell grass, well watered by the Victoria river to the west and the Camfield River to the east as well as numerous creeks.

The northern portion of the property is predominantly vertisols covered in tussock grassland. The southern portion is based mostly on kandosols with a landscape composed of open woodland to the south west and shrubland to the east with smaller areas of hummock grassland dispersed throughout.

It is bounded to the north west by Victoria River Downs, the north east by Camfield Station, to the east by Cattle Creek Station. Areas to the south and west are Aboriginal Land holdings.

The traditional owners of the lands are the Gurindji peoples, who have lived in the area for approximately 60,000 years.

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