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Narwietooma Station most commonly known as Narwietooma is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory.
It is situated about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Hermannsburg and 139 kilometres (86 mi) west of Alice Springs and is bordered by the West MacDonnell National Park close to Ormiston Gorge. Narwietooma is surrounded by other leases including Glen Helen Station to the south west, Derwent Station to the west, Napperby to the north and Amburla to the east and the West MacDonnell National Park to the south.
The property occupies an area of 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and has a carrying capacity of approximately 17,000 head of cattle depending on the season. It is fenced into 80 separate paddocks and is watered by 60 bores and 35 dams.
The lease was first established in 1942 by a partnership between Edward Connellan, who owned another station named Narwie, and F. O'Keefe who owned a property named Tooma, the name of the lease was a portmanteau between the names of the other two properties.
Connellan was an experienced pilot who later established Connellan Airways in 1943. He picked out the land for the station in 1938 when doing aerial surveys to assess the viability of an air service.
Following the death of his partners, Connellan acquired complete ownership of Narwietooma in 1946. He sank the first bore in 1947 and began grazing cattle in 1948. His family moved to the property in 1955 and Connellan supervised all station work.
As of 2014 the 2,590 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi) property was still on the market along with at least 15 others in the Northern Territory.