Mount Ebenezer Station is a

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that operates as a

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in the

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. It is situated about north east of

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and south west of

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. The lease shares a boundary with other pastoral leases including

Angas Downs Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an Aboriginal Australian-owned pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (Ayers Rock), south ...

to the west, Lyndavale to the south,

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to the south east and Palmer Valley to the north west. The

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bisects the property from east to west. The property takes its name from the peak Mount Ebenezer that is found in the Baselow Range within the station boundaries. Mount Ebenezer is named after Ebenezer Flint who was delivering supplies to

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s in the area in 1871. The pastoralist, Richard Warburton, took up

Station to the east of Mount Ebenezer in 1822. Warburton is thought to have passed through the area while

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stray cattle. William Liddle took up the nearby

Station in 1922. The Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse was closed for several months in 2012. When William O'Donnell signed a lease to reopen the roadhouse he was driven from the property by a spear wielding Indigenous man. The owners of the roadhouse terminated the contract shortly afterwards. As of 2014 the property was still on the market along with at least 15 others in the

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and Northern Territory.

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