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buildings were removed and used to build the station homestead at New Crown.
If you think Charlotte Waters looks a bit drab now, at least you have been warned. Spare a thought for Madigan and his men when they arrived. As he said in his book Crossing The Dead Heart, "My companions, from their memory of the prominence given to Charlotte Waters on school maps... had imagined it was a town, the capital of a thriving center. We found its one inhabitant dead".
Hopefully you won't have such a greeting, but just beyond the rubble there is a lonely grave, marked by a fancy iron cross and railings. There has been some controversy over the years about whom, or in this case, what is buried in the grave.
Some believe it was a nine-year-old girl while Madigan reckoned it was the last resting place of a blacksmith's dog. You can make up your own mind.
Standing at the grave, it's fair to ask how such a desolate place got such a pleasant name as Charlotte Waters. Well, you may need to be sitting down for the answer.
Apparently Lord Byron, the famous English poet, fell head over heels for a young woman by the name of Charlotte Harley. Smitten by her beauty, he dedicated a large poem to her, referring to her as 'Ianthe', which in Greek mythology is basically a cross between a goddess and a water nymph.
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As luck would have it, Charlotte Harley had eyes for another, a veteran of Waterloo by the name of Major-General Anthony Bacon. They ended up married and had a son whom they christened Harley Bacon.
The family then migrated to Australia, settling in Adelaide. Rather than following in his father's footsteps, young Harley eventually found himself working on the Overland Telegraph Line in this area. His overseer, a Mr Knuckey, got into diffi culties while travelling and was near to dying of thirst when he came across a waterhole.
Recovering from his ordeal and struck by the beauty of the water, he sought a name for this oasis. But what could compare to its beauty? It was just a matter of association. Aware of young Harley's pedigree and Byron's likening Harley's mother to an aquatic goddess, the answer was simple. You can fi nd the Charlotte Waters just to the north in the tree lined Coglin Creek.
After this brush with the arts, you will probably want to start heading back to Mount Dare for a few cold ones, so turn around and take the track to the south and veer left at the intersection. The Loop now follows station fences and crosses dry creek beds. However, the navigator does get the opportunity to stretch the legs and open the border gate between South Australia and the Northern Territory, where a plethora of signs greet you.
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If you think Charlotte Waters looks a bit drab now, at least you have been warned. Spare a thought for Madigan and his men when they arrived. As he said in his book Crossing The Dead Heart, "My companions, from their memory of the prominence given to Charlotte Waters on school maps... had imagined it was a town, the capital of a thriving center. We found its one inhabitant dead".
Hopefully you won't have such a greeting, but just beyond the rubble there is a lonely grave, marked by a fancy iron cross and railings. There has been some controversy over the years about whom, or in this case, what is buried in the grave.
Some believe it was a nine-year-old girl while Madigan reckoned it was the last resting place of a blacksmith's dog. You can make up your own mind.
Standing at the grave, it's fair to ask how such a desolate place got such a pleasant name as Charlotte Waters. Well, you may need to be sitting down for the answer.
Apparently Lord Byron, the famous English poet, fell head over heels for a young woman by the name of Charlotte Harley. Smitten by her beauty, he dedicated a large poem to her, referring to her as 'Ianthe', which in Greek mythology is basically a cross between a goddess and a water nymph.
read on below advertisement
As luck would have it, Charlotte Harley had eyes for another, a veteran of Waterloo by the name of Major-General Anthony Bacon. They ended up married and had a son whom they christened Harley Bacon.
The family then migrated to Australia, settling in Adelaide. Rather than following in his father's footsteps, young Harley eventually found himself working on the Overland Telegraph Line in this area. His overseer, a Mr Knuckey, got into diffi culties while travelling and was near to dying of thirst when he came across a waterhole.
Recovering from his ordeal and struck by the beauty of the water, he sought a name for this oasis. But what could compare to its beauty? It was just a matter of association. Aware of young Harley's pedigree and Byron's likening Harley's mother to an aquatic goddess, the answer was simple. You can fi nd the Charlotte Waters just to the north in the tree lined Coglin Creek.
After this brush with the arts, you will probably want to start heading back to Mount Dare for a few cold ones, so turn around and take the track to the south and veer left at the intersection. The Loop now follows station fences and crosses dry creek beds. However, the navigator does get the opportunity to stretch the legs and open the border gate between South Australia and the Northern Territory, where a plethora of signs greet you.
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