Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli

Winner of the 2005 Northern Territory Chief Minister’s History Award. An energetic ‘frontiersman’, Paddy Cahill joined pioneer Nat Buchanan’s famous 1883 cattle drive, moving 20,000 head of cattle from Australia’s Central Queensland to Northern Territory and he was known throughout the 1890’s as one of Darwin’s ‘characters’. In 1909 Cahill settled at Oenpelli, on the East Alligator River. He pioneered tropical horticulture, agriculture and butter production and established positive race relation