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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.〔 ==Description== It is located about east of Kalkaringi, south east of Timber Creek and about south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The station occupies an area of 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wave Hill Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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