Amelia Kunoth née Pavey was an Aboriginal Australian woman who developed well-known cattle stations in Central Australia, including Utopia, Bond Springs, Hamilton Downs and Tempe Downs.
Amelia Kunoth, née Pavey, holding Edna Bradshaw at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. Photo dated 1906.
Bradshaw family's housegirls, left to right, Amboora, Amelia and Rungie in 1906.
Amelia Kunoth in her later years, c1977
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin
and Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central Australia. It was one of twelve stations along the Overland Telegraph Line.
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
Alice Springs telegraph station buildings in 1905
Staff at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station.