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Muckaty Station Aboriginal freehold landholding in Australia's Northern Territory , approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) south of Darwin . Originally under traditional Indigenous Australian ownership, the area became a pastoral lease in the late 19th century and for many years operated as a cattle station . Muckaty Station was returned to its Indigenous custodians in 1999. It is traversed by the Stuart Highway , built in the 1940s along the route of the service track for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line , a natural gas pipeline, and the Adelaide–Darwin railway . The area comprises semi-arid stony ridges, claypans and a stony plateau, and experiences a sub-tropical climate, with a wet season between January and March. The vegetation is mostly scrubland , including spinifex grasslands . The fauna is generally typical of Australian desert environments, and includes the red kangaroo (pictured) , the eastern wallaroo , the northern nail-tail wallaby , and the spinifex hopping mouse . A site within Muckaty is being considered for Australia's low-level and intermediate-level radioactive waste storage and disposal facility. The plan is subject to a Federal Court challenge due to be heard early in 2013. (Full article...
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