Murranji Track
A former stock route in the Northern Territory of Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Murranji Track or Murranji Stock Route is a stock route in the Northern Territory of Australia and it runs between Newcastle Waters and Top Springs.[1] The track was primarily operational between 1904 to the late 1960s and it attracted descriptions as the "ghost road of the Drovers" and the "death track".[2] It was used as an entry point to the Barkly Tableland and it is nearby to Wave Hill, Auvergne and Victoria River Downs Stations.[3][4]
It is on the lands of the Mudburra and Djingili peoples and their rights to this land has been established by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the Native Title Act 1993.[5][6]
Use of the track declined from 1966 when the Buchanan Highway was completed and it is now rarely used as a stock route and is now an unsealed road.[5][7][8] It is 644 kms long.[9]