Charlotte Waters, about 250km south east of Alice Springs. The place was named by the surveyors R. B. Knuckey and A. T. Woods engaged on the Overland Telegraph Line. They had been reading Byron's "Childe Harold" which had been dedicated to Lady Charlotte Bacon as Ianthe. Knuckey wrote: "We solemnly filled our pannikins and I named the "Waters" Charlotte after Lady Charlotte Bacon, daughter of the sixth Earl of Oxford.",
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buildings, structures & establishments,
telegraph offices,
Overland Telegraph Line (N.T. and S. Aust.),