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Alton Downs Station , most commonly known simply as Alton Downs , is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in north east South Australia .
The property is situated approximately 48 kilometres (30 mi ) south west of Birdsville and
253 kilometres (157 mi ) north west of Innamincka . It is bordered to the west by the Simpson Desert Regional reserve, to the south by Clifton Hills Station and to the east by Pandie Pandie Station . The station contains many landforms including gibber plains , sand-plains, floodplains, channels and ephemeral rivers.[1] Warburton River flows through the property southward through Clifton Hills and Cowarie Station then discharging into Lake Eyre .
History [ edit ]
The property was first taken up by Whittingham in 1878, the same year that Chapman established Cordillo Downs Station.[2] Bank of Adelaide , of which he was a director.[3]
Sidney Kidman acquired the property in 1897[2] Cowarie Station and about the same time he started to expand further into the Channel Country and purchased Annandale Station .[4]
The station was abandoned sometime early in the 1900s when the area was drought struck. Other nearby properties including Pandie Pandie , Miranda and Idra Downs had also been abandoned. The country had started to recover from the drought in 1904 and pastoralists in the area had commenced restocking.[5]
The property was found to be practically abandoned in 1927 after the area had been over run by rabbits .[6]
Current use [ edit ]
The property is currently owned by Brook Proprietors, who also own nearby Cordillo Downs , Murnpeowie , Adria Downs (Queensland) and Kamaran Downs (Queensland) stations. All these holdings are NASAA Certified Organic Livestock operations.[7]
The land occupying the extent of the Alton Downs pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Alton Downs Station" with the word "Station" being added to avoid duplication of the name of a locality in Queensland .[8]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "The Federal Bank" . The Argus 15 . Retrieved 4 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Germaine Greer (2003). Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood . Black Inc. p. 64. ISBN 9781863953719
^ "Pastoral Country in great heart" . The Capricornian 34 . Retrieved 3 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ " . Townsville Daily Bulletin 7 . Retrieved 4 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "NASAA Certified Organic Producers" . United States Department of Agriculture . 22 June 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2013 .
^ "Search result for "Alton Downs Station (LOCB)" (Record no SA0067004) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" . Property Location Browser . Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
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