An armed group of settlers was then organised by Edward and the Aboriginal camp was raided and destroyed, with six or eight Bungandidj being killed.

[8][9][10] The Clarke family then owned Mount Schank station for around 140 years before it was bought in 2005 by former chairman of the AFL, Ron Evans.

[11] Part of Mount Schank became a private sub-division of land within the cadastral unit of the Hundred of MacDonnell.

The locality includes a number of geological features consisting of the dormant[12] volcano, Mount Schank, which is located on the eastern side of the Riddoch Highway and a number of water-filled sinkholes such as the Little Blue Lake located on land to the west of the Riddoch Highway.

[1] The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with an area located between the Riddoch highway and the western side of the dormant volcano is zoned for industrial purposes.