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Daughter of the Territory is the life story of Jacqueline Hammar.
Born in Darwin in 1929, when the population of the entire Northern Territory was 3306, Jacqueline lived for more than five decades in the remotest reaches of the Top End.
Her childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns in remote Territory locations before she was sent to a convent school in Darwin.
With the outbreak of World War Two and the bombing of Darwin Harbour, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education.
On her return to the Territory Jacqueline met and married stockman Kan Hammar. They moved to a vast property on the Limmen River, one of the most inaccessible areas in Australia, transporting corrugated iron and cutting down trees to build a crude hut to live in.
