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Traditionally home of the Jawoyn and Dagoman people, the Katherine River area must have been a sight for explorer John McDouall Stuart's sore eyes as he struggled north in 1862. Having reached here, he named the river after a benefactor's daughter, Catherine, and within ten years the completion of the Overland Telegraph Line (OTL) encouraged European settlement, as drovers and prospectors converged on the first reliable water north of Alice Springs. In 1926 the railway from Darwin finally spanned the river and "Kath-rhyne", as the die-hard locals still call the town of KATHERINE , became established on its present site. It's essentially a "one-street" town, with Tennant Creek the only other place of consequence in the 1500 kilometres between Darwin and Alice.
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