22°05′20″S 131°25′19″E / 22.089°S 131.422°E Mount Doreen Station is a 7,337-square-kilometre (2,833 sq mi) pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is situated about 142 kilometres (88 mi) north east of Papunya and approximately 319 kilometres (198 mi) north west of Alice Springs just off the Tanami Track in the central region of the Northern Territory. The property shares a boundary with Yunkanjini Aboriginal Land Trust to the south, the Yuendumu Aboriginal Land Trust to the east (with Yuendumu the closest settlement[1]), the Mala Aboriginal Land Trust to the north and the Lake Mackay Aboriginal Land Trust to the west. The nearest leases are Newhaven Sanctuary (formerly Station) to the south and Mount Denison to the east.[2]
Vaughan Springs, known to the Warlpiri people as Pikilyi, is a large and important natural spring on the property.[3][4][5][6]
- ^ "Yuendumu – Major". BushTel. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Northern Territory Pastoral Properties" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ^ "Pikilyi Dreaming by Steven Japanangka". Spirit Gallery. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ Mackett, Paul (2003). "Mount Doreen 1963 - 1968". Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
National Archives of Australia, Darwin Office CRS E944/0 Item Mt Doreen CA 7112: Aboriginal Population Records
- ^ Peterson, Nicolas (2016). "9: What was Dr Coombs thinking? Nyirrpi, policy and the future". In Peterson, Nicolas; Myers, Fred (eds.). Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia. Map shows Pikilyi, with the symbol for Homestead (as shown in the legend). ANU Press. ISBN 9781925022902.
- ^ "Vaughan Springs". Google Maps. Retrieved 17 March 2021.