European settlement history of The Pinnacle Nature Reserve

Friends of The Pinnacle acknowledge the first nations people who lived on and moved through the land that is now known as the Pinnacle Nature Reserve. This history commences at the time their custodianship was threatened by European settlement.

The Pinnacle was declared a protected area (reserve) in 1993, but the land was resumed from rural leaseholders (for the last time) in the mid-1960s. Before that there were three main periods of settlement and land tenure: Appropriation or Squatting between around 1826 and 1861, Free Selection from 1861 and Leasing after the creation of the Federal Territory in 1911.

Maps and tenure records of land holdings and leases before 1965 are readily available on the public record in digital form and these have been used to create a "history through maps" of the land that was to become the Pinnacle Nature Reserve.

Note that the history pages are still a work in progress and will be updated as more information comes to light