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  2. Australian feral camel - Wikipedia

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    Camel studs were set up in 1866, by Sir Thomas Elder and Samuel Stuckey, at Beltana and Umberatana Stations in South Australia. There was also a government stud camel farm at Londonderry, near Coolgardie in Western Australia, established in 1894. [14] These studs operated for about 50 years and provided high-class breeders for the Australian ...

  3. Sallay Mahomet - Wikipedia

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    Sallay Mahomet, Camel Farm, Alice Springs. Sallay Mahomet (16 September 1911 – 15 July 1983), sometimes spelled Saleh, was an Afghan Australian cameleer and camel trainer who lived for much of his life at Alice Springs. Mahomet is perhaps best known for helping train Robyn Davidson for the 1977 camel expedition that is documented in her book Tracks, and a subsequent 2013 film adaptation ...

  4. Cressbrook Homestead - Wikipedia

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    Cressbrook Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. [1] The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Cressbrook Homestead was established by David Cannon McConnel in 1841, the first run taken in the Brisbane Valley.

  5. Emu Park, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Emu Park is a coastal town and locality on the Capricorn Coast located 21 kilometres (13 mi) south of Yeppoon in Queensland, Australia.It is within the local government area of Shire of Livingstone (between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Rockhampton Region).

  6. Robyn Davidson - Wikipedia

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    Robyn Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls.When she was 11 years old, her mother took her own life, and she was raised largely by her unmarried aunt (her father's sister), Gillian, and attended a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. [1]

  7. 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".

  8. Boulia Camel Races - Wikipedia

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    The Boulia Camel Races is an Australian camel race held annually every third weekend of July in Boulia, Queensland since 1997. Sometimes called the Melbourne Cup of camel racing, [1] the event is home to the Boulia Camel Cup, the longest camel race in Australia run over 1500 metres. [2] [3] Races are overseen by the regulatory body Racing ...

  9. Davenport Downs Station - Wikipedia

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    Davenport Downs is the largest cattle station in Queensland and the fourth largest station in Australia after Anna Creek station, Alexandria Station and Clifton Hills Station. Together with Springvale station which is run in aggregate with Davenport they occupy an area of 15,100 square kilometres (5,830 sq mi) and are currently owned by Paraway ...

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