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The written history of the Henbury meteorite craters begins with the brothers Edmund William and Walter Parke, who came to Australia for the sake of colonial adventure in the second half of the 19th century. In 1877, the Parke brothers founded a cattle station near the dry course of Finke River, some 120 km south of Alice Springs, and named it after their home estate Henbury in Dorset, South England.
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Buhl, S., McColl, D. (2015). EARLY PIONEERS. In: Henbury Craters and Meteorites. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03955-8_1
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