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The Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse is no longer operating. having
gone out of business as of April 2012. Located on the Lasseter Highway, some 57 km west of Erldunda and the Stuart Highway turnoff
was the Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse. The roadhouse derives its name from the nearby Mount Ebenezer,
which is said to be named after Ernest Ebenezer. S. Flint, who was the Senior and
Inspecting Officer of the Southern Section of the Overland Telegraph Line.
The
roadhouse was owned and operated by the Aboriginal people from the nearby Imanpa
Community, along with Angus Downs Station.
The Imanpa Community is in the
Northern Territory of
Australia.
It is 7 km north of the
Lasseter Highway, the main road running between the
Stuart Highway and
Uluru (Ayers
Rock). Imanpa lies 160 km east of Uluru and 200 km south west of Alice Springs
as the crow flies. It is seventeen km from the former Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse.
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