Alitera is the Aranda name for Boggy Hole after the two ghost gum serpents and the ancestral wallaby who came to be there during the Dreaming. Alitera became the site for the Boggy Hole police station which was establihsed by Mounted Constable Willhire (Mulvaney 126).
Reference:
D.J. Mulvaney, "Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians 1606-1985", (University of Queensland Press...)
Boggy Hole Police station was located thirty-five kilometres downstream from Hermannsburg . As Mulvaney writes, stations like Boggy Hole were founded to ease the fears of the European pastoralists through the 'pacification' and 'dispersal', or violence and murder, of Aboriginal people (Mulvaney, 124).
Boggy Hole station was abandoned in approximately 1891 largely due to complaints by the Hermannsburg missionaries over Willshire's war-like rule.
Reference:
D.J Mulvaney, "Encounters In Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians 1606-1985", (University of Queenland Press...)
