The cattle grid marking the end of the "town side" of Undoolya Road that travels east through Alice Springs opens the gate to the oldest cattle station in the Northern Territory.
On February 13, 1872, Undoolya Station became the territory's first pastoral lease when Adelaide socialite Edward Mead Bagot Snr signed a contract with the South Australian government.
"He was a fairly prominent bloke in South Australia," sixth-generation cattleman of Undoolya Station Ben Hayes, who runs the property with his wife Nicole, told ABC Rural.
