__NOTOC__ Ryan Well Historical Reserve, formerly Reserve No. 1343, is a

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

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located in the locality of Anmatjere about north of

Alice Springs Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...

. The historical reserve consists of two parcels of land located on opposite sides of the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; it has a distance of . Its northern and souther ...

and its road reserve. The parcel on the west side of the highway contains the remains of Ryan Well, a

well A well is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...

excavated in the 19th century to provide water to

livestock Livestock are the Domestication, domesticated animals that are raised in an Agriculture, agricultural setting to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, Egg as food, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The t ...

moving along the

Overland Telegraph Line The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was an electrical telegraph system for sending messages the between Darwin, in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia, and Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Completed in 1872 (with a li ...

, and a car park while the parcel on the east side of the highway contains the remains of a building known as the Glen Maggie Homestead. It first acquired protected area status as a "a place of historic interest" declared under section 103 of the ''Crown Lands Ordinance 1931-1971'' on 30 April 1974 by the Australian government in respect to the western parcel of land and was given the name Reserve No. 1343. On 3 May 1974, the eastern parcel of land was added to the reserve. On 30 June 1978, it was declared as ''Reserve No 1343 (Ryan Well Historical Reserve)'' under the ''Territory Parks and Wildlife Act'' and on 10 September 1979, it was renamed as ''Ryan Well Historical Reserve''. In 1980, it was described as follows:

Ryan's Well is significant as one of the surviving wells dug by overland telegraph teams to provide water for men working on the telegraph and for stock driven to provide meat for telegraph staff. Glen Maggie clearly demonstrates the characteristics of a vernacular structure built of local materials… Ryan's Well was dug in 1889 and is 96 feet deep. It is substantially timbered. A windlass, camel whip, buckets, 10,000 gallon tank and 100 feet of trough were originally on site. A large stone surround was built at the top of the well. Today all that remains on site is the well and the stone surround. Glen Maggie Homestead was built in 1917 of local stone, with local timber for the door and window frames. In 1932 it served as a Post Office and turning-off point for The Granites gold rush. The building was abandoned about 1933…

The historical reserve was listed on the now-defunct

Register of the National Estate The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heri ...

on 21 October 1980 and on the

Northern Territory Heritage Register The Northern Territory Heritage Register is a heritage register, being a statutory list of places in the Northern Territory of Australia that are protected by the Northern Territory statute, the '' Heritage Act 2011''. The register is maintained ...

on 18 February 1995. As of 2016, it had not given an International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area category. Ryan Well was the destination of one of the survivors of a plane crash on Woodgreen Station in September 1935, when a

General Aircraft Monospar The General Aircraft Monospar was a family of touring and utility aircraft designed and built by the United Kingdom, British aviation company General Aircraft Ltd (GAL). Development In 1929, the Monospar Company Ltd was formed to pursue new t ...

ST-12 operated by Australian Transcontinental Airways (ATA) suffered

engine failure A turbine engine failure occurs when a Gas turbine, gas turbine engine unexpectedly stops producing Power (physics), power due to a malfunction other than fuel exhaustion. It often applies for aircraft, but other turbine engines can also fail, ...

, and made an emergency landing on the property. The pilot and his two passengers all survived, in difficult circumstances. )

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