This Is Our Story

Long before highways, fuel stops and travellers with caravans, this was simply the edge of the known world.

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In 1879 pastoralist Abraham Wallace and his nephew J.H. Palmer drove 2,700 head of cattle across some of the harshest country in Australia — around the Gulf and down the Roper River — until they reached the quiet waters of Stanley Billabong. Here they founded Elsey Station, a lonely outpost in a place people would come to call the Never Never.