19-1295: Finke may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Finke, Northern Territory , a community in central Australia now known as Aputula Finke bioregion , Northern Territory Finke River , central Australia Mount Finke , South Australia Hungary [ edit ] Finke, a village annexed by Edelény , Hungary People [ edit ] Fidelio F. Finke (1891–1968), German composer Fritz Finke , 19th-century German/American musician Leonhard Ludwig Finke (1747–1837), German physician Meinolf Finke (born 1963), German writer and poet Nikki Finke (1953–2022), American journalist Peter Finke (born 1944), German theoretical physicist who participated in Pakistan's clandestine nuclear research project Roger Finke , 20th-21st century American sociologist Tommy Finke (born 1981), German singer/songwriter/composer Volker Finke (born 1948), German former football manager and player William Finke (1814–1864), pioneer in South Australia, sponsor of McDouall Stuart's exploration Other uses [ edit ] Finke coat of arms ,
38-586: A coat of arms used in Germany and Poland Finke Desert Race , an annual off-road desert race from Alice Springs to Apatula (aka Finke), Northern Territory, Australia Finke Opera House , Missouri, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places See also [ edit ] Finke Gorge National Park , a protected area in the Northern Territory Fink (disambiguation) Fincke ,
57-1002: A list of people with the surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Finke . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. v t e Family names derived from the word " finch " Germanic De Vink , Finch , Finke , Finck , Fincke , Fink , Vincke , Vink , Vinke [REDACTED] Romance Pinzón Slavic Pěnkava , Zeba , Zięba , Ziemba Other Estonian: Vint Finnish: Peippo Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Finke&oldid=1192395148 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Surnames from nicknames German-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description
76-467: A place called 'Putula' (an Arrernte word) near the community, which used to be the site of a water soakage , where Arrernte people used to get their water, before the white people and the railway line came to the area. It also became a "dry town", after the council bought the pub and Johnny Briscoe, the town's first Aboriginal Health Worker, became the publican and ran it dry before giving away its liquor licence . The Aputula Housing Company, founded in
95-531: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Finke, Northern Territory Aputula (formerly Finke until the 1980s) is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia . It is 317 km (197 mi) south of Alice Springs and 159 km (99 mi) east of Kulgera roadhouse on the Stuart Highway , near
114-518: The Lambert centre point of mainland Australia is 23 kilometres (14 miles) west-southwest of the township. A railway siding called Finke Siding was created on the Central Australia Railway around 1925. It began as a small working men's camp, where the fettlers (railway workers) lived in concrete buildings without family. The nearest police and postal services were at Charlotte Waters and
133-452: The 1960s, the Aboriginal population of Finke rose as drought and government patrols moved nomads off traditional hunting grounds, and there less work on cattle stations owing to changes in the industry. The people lived in wurlies, hunted rabbits and sold artefacts to increasing numbers of train tourists. Most non-Aboriginal people left Finke when the railway line was shifted westwards in
152-550: The 1970s, has played an important part in the economy, and was run by local people as well as a group of Torres Strait Islanders who moved inland after the war. Several of the old buildings in Aputula, including the old police station, school and railway buildings have been nominated for heritage listing by the NT Heritage Council. Finke used to have a police force mounted on camels , possibly "the largest police patrol in
171-531: The Charlotte Waters one closed down and the policemen, trackers, their families and some "aged and infirm" Aboriginal people moved to Finke. Residents petitioned for a postal service in 1938. Aboriginal visitors increased as people from Ernabella came to pick up supplies from the train. During the war years, the Central Australian Railway was the main transport route for thousands of soldiers from
190-453: The border with South Australia . The Finke River (named after German prospector William Finke ), which is dry for most of the year except during occasional floods and is part of the Lake Eyre basin , passes within a few kilometres of the community. Aputula is the farthest populated place from the sea in mainland Australia, and therefore the nearest settlement to the geographical centre:
209-544: The current inhabitants of Finke are migrants from the Western desert , who acknowledge that they are living on Southern Arrernte soil. The site has never been used as an Aboriginal camping place, even in pre-European times, because of the lack of water. Zeba (surname) Zeba is a Serbo-Croatian language surname from a nickname meaning "finch" in Serbo-Croatian. Notable people with
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#1732844059201228-399: The district's cattle yards and railway station were at Rumbalara. Car travellers were rare. Aboriginal people started visiting the siding as soon as it was built. Lower Southern Arrernte and Luritja people established a camp in the sandhills nearby, trading dingo scalps, wild flowers , artefacts and other items for water and food. A police station was built in the late 1930s, after
247-625: The first European person to cross the Simpson Desert ), was opened. An air strip , which gave access to the Royal Flying Doctor Service , and race track were built by the Aboriginal residents. In 1949 the government started subsidising the town's water supply, but the 1950s saw a water crisis. In 1953, the school was opened, and Town of Finke formally proclaimed on 18 August 1955, with town lands made available by auction in October. In
266-432: The late 1970s, following the huge track-damaging floods of 1973 and 1974. The Indigenous population did not move. Instead, with the help of Margaret Bain , a Uniting Church missionary from Ernabella , they moved off the sand dunes into houses they built themselves. It was during this time that the town came to be known as Aputula, and transitioned from a European township to an Aboriginal community. The name comes from
285-420: The name include: Emir Zeba (1989), Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired football player Josip Zeba (1990), Croatian professional footballer Zajko Zeba (1983), Bosnian professional footballer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Zeba . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
304-717: The person's given name (s) to the link. v t e Family names derived from the word " finch " Germanic De Vink , Finch , Finke , Finck , Fincke , Fink , Vincke , Vink , Vinke [REDACTED] Romance Pinzón Slavic Pěnkava , Zeba , Zięba , Ziemba Other Estonian: Vint Finnish: Peippo Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zeba_(surname)&oldid=1082825829 " Categories : Surnames Serbo-Croatian-language surnames Surnames from nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
323-672: The post office, and also distributed rations while their husbands were away on patrol and nursed sick people (there were no nurses or doctors in Finke). Aputula holds the record of having the two hottest days ever recorded in the Northern Territory: 48.3 °C (118.9 °F) on 1 and 2 January 1960. In the 2021 census , the town and the immediately surrounding area had a population of 191 in 42 families; there were 59 private dwellings. The residents are Pitjantjatjara , Yankunytjatjara , Luritja, and Lower Southern Arrernte people. Most of
342-488: The southern states going to war in the Pacific , and the siding got its first repeater station operator as well as its first privately owned business. After World War II , local pastoralists convinced the government to move its cattle yards from Rumbalara to Finke because the water quality at Finke was much better, and the population was thus boosted. In 1947, the first pub, Finke Hotel, owned by Ted Colson (who had been
361-605: The world", and the last police station in the NT to use camels. Aboriginal trackers were an essential part of the patrols, which were often responsible for finding people lost in the bush . The last camel patrol left Finke in 1953. Trackers were also invaluable in solving crimes such as the Sundown murders in 1957. Finke police were also responsible for inspecting stock, registration of births, marriages and deaths, looking after mines, protecting birds and collecting taxes. The policemen's wives ran
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