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This is a list of the largest stations in Australia, which includes stations with an area in excess of 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi). All of the largest pastoral leases are located in the states of South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA); or in the Northern Territory (NT).
The station occupies an area of about 10,117 square kilometres (3,906 sq mi) or 2.5 million acres in the remote south east of Western Australia, making it the largest sheep station in Australia. It is owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company. [1] The station is an amalgamation of the Pondana, Rawlinna and Vanesk leases. [2]
The Avenue Range Station massacre was a murder of a group of Aboriginal Australians by white settlers during the Australian frontier wars.It occurred in about September 1848 at Avenue Range, a sheep station in the southeast of the Colony of South Australia.
Rawlinna Station in Western Australia is the largest sheep station in Australia, covering about 10,117 square kilometres (3,906 sq mi) or 2.5 million acres. [7] Walter Peak is a notable old sheep station that was founded in 1860 on the south shore of Lake Wakatipu, South Island, New Zealand.
Massacre at Brachina Gorge by a party of men led by Johnson Frederick Hayward, who ran Aroona Station, a sheep station in the Flinders Ranges – at least 15 Adnyamathanha people killed in a dawn attack on 17 March 1852, in retaliation for the murder of stockman Robert Richardson on 14 March. [145] [146] [147] 1852.
Mount Margaret was once Queenslands and Australias largest sheep station, occupying an area of 599,000 hectares (1,480,161 acres) which makes it larger than the nation of Brunei. [1] The station was sold in 2010 for $12 million, it was free of stock at the time but included all plant and equipment and was sold to New South Wales cattle producer ...
“Australia has had several very good seasons over the past few years, which means that the sheep flock has reached 78.75 million head — the largest since 2007,” said MLA’s global supply ...
James Brown (c. 1819 – 7 February 1890) was a Scottish-born mass murderer and pastoralist of the South East of South Australia responsible for the Avenue Range Station massacre of between nine and eleven Aboriginal Australians. He was never convicted, despite the magistrate who committed him for trial observing that there was "little question ...