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- This article covers the Australian usage. In the UK, outstation or out-station can mean a type of bus garage.
Historically, the word outstation has been used to denote subsidiary homesteads or other dwellings, on Australian sheep or cattle stations (ranches) which were large enough to have more than a day's travel between different parts of the property. However, since the outstation movement of the late 20th century, the term has come to refer to small settlements of Aboriginal Australians on their traditional homelands.
