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  2. List of the largest stations in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Area includes both Commonwealth Hill and Mobella outstation combined. Biggest sheep station in SA, second largest sheep station in Australia [23] 20 Walhallow Station: NT: 9,997 3,860 2,470,000: Cattle: 1881 [24] 21 Ruby Plains: WA: 9,674 3,740 2,390,000: Cattle: 1889: Area includes both Ruby Plains and Sturt Creek outstation combined. [25] 22 ...

  3. Rawlinna Station - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Sheep station - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Station (Australian agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for producing livestock, predominantly cattle or sheep, that needs an extensive range of grazing land. The owner of a station is called a pastoralist or a grazier , corresponding to the North American term " rancher ".

  6. List of ranches and stations - Wikipedia

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    Run or station is the term used in New Zealand for large sheep or cattle properties. Akitio; Brancepeth Station; Castle Hill; Double Hill Station, located on the Rakaia River; Erewhon Station, named after a fictitious place (based on Mesopotamia Station) in Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon" Flock Hill; Glenaray Station; Maraekakaho; Marainanga ...

  7. Cordillo Downs - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Australia has too many sheep — and farmers are giving them ...

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    Australia’s mutton glut sent prices tumbling, and some farmers are culling or giving away their sheep to save costs instead of rearing them on-farm.. Mutton prices have slumped 70% over the past ...

  9. Wellshot Station - Wikipedia

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    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]