Charlotte Waters was a tiny settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia located close to the South Australian border, not far from Aputula. It was known for its telegraph station, the Charlotte
Telegraph Station, c.1880, Paddy Byrne on right (photograph by Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, government geologist).
Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station, date unknown
1982 photograph of ruins
Alfred Giles (explorer)
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Alfred Giles, born in Datchet, England, was a South Australian bushman, drover and explorer who crossed Australia from south to north seven times, mostly in connection with the building of the Overlan
Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory
…been dedicated to the young woman (then Lady Harley, aged 11) as Ianthe. Lady Bacon had stayed with relatives in South Australia between 1869 and 1874. Christopher Giles (no relation of Ernest), a surveyor in Goyder's 1868 expedition and with Charles Todd in 1870, was involved with the surveying of the telegraph line…
Alfred Giles