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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]
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.
Anna Creek Station in South Australia is the world's largest working cattle station. [3] It is roughly 24,000 square kilometres (9,300 sq mi); [ 4 ] much larger than the runner-up, Clifton Hills , another South Australian cattle station spanning 17,000 square kilometres (6,600 sq mi); and substantially larger than America's biggest ranch ( King ...
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 ...
Cordillo Downs or Cordillo Downs Station is both a pastoral lease currently operating as a cattle station and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. It is located about 116 kilometres (72 mi) north of Innamincka and 155 kilometres (96 mi) south east of Birdsville .
“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 ...
In 1892, Wellshot was known as the biggest sheep station in the world, not because of the area it occupied but because of the number of sheep it ran: 460,000. So important was the property that Ilfracombe was known as Wellshot until 1890. [6] 40,000 two-year-old wethers were sold off from the property later the same year. [7]