Tanami Downs station covers approximately 4,200 square kilometres (1,600 sq mi) [1] of the Northern Territory, about 650 kilometres (400 mi) north-west of Alice Springs.
[2] Though drought-prone and semi-arid, Tanami Downs has some mountainous areas with permanent water, and its northern parts have plains suitable for cattle grazing.
[4] Title to the land was officially handed to the traditional owners on 21 December 1992.
[3] The land is owned by the Mungkurrupa Land Trust, which represents the traditional owners, while the station is operated by a board comprising a mix of traditional owners, an outside representative of another pastoral station, and an agricultural consultant.
[4] It is also where artist and author Kim Mahood grew up, and features heavily in her two biographies Craft for a Dry Lake (2000) and Position Doubtful: mapping landscapes and memories (2016).