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Australia's largest operating sheep station, Rawlinna Station, covering an area of 1,011,714 hectares (2,500,000 acres) – about the area of the Sydney conurbation – adjoins the railway line. It runs up to 65,000 Merino sheep in a good season. Mustering and droving are done on motorbikes and in aircraft to locate them, beginning in January ...
Rawlinna Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about 339 kilometres (211 mi) east of Kambalda in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The locality of Rawlinna and the Trans-Australian Railway are situated along the boundary of the station. It is the largest sheep station in Australia.
Fraser Range Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Norseman on the Eyre Highway in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The area was visited in 1870 by John and Alexander Forrest on their expedition to Adelaide .
In the state Maps (Road Maps of Western Australia Maps 1–154) 'Pastoral Lease Stations' are identified with their names and boundaries. Quality Publishing Australia.(2007) Roads & tracks Western Australia : campsites directory, roads and tracks, all in one Jolimont, W.A.,Quality Publishing Australia, 5th ed ISBN 1-876723-35-1
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 .
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 ...
[1] [2] It is the second largest sheep station in Australia, after Rawlinna and is currently owned by CC Cooper & Co. [3] In 1927, the extent of the Madura Station was reported as 810,000 hectares (2 million acres). [4] The station has a carrying capacity of 58,000 sheep, which are Merinos raised for their wool. The company employed eight staff ...
According to the Fremantle Ports’ 2022 annual report, the port handles 100% of Australia’s live sheep exports by sea (and 100% is headed to the Middle East), which in 2022 totaled 460,000 ...