Dulkaninna

Dulkaninna
Location in South Australia

Coordinates: 29°01′07″S 138°27′43″E / 29.0186°S 138.461945°E

Dulkaninna Station, ca 1930

Dulkaninna Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback South Australia.

It is located along the Birdsville Track approximately 84 kilometres (52 mi) north of Marree situated at the southern end of the Tirari Desert. The property is composed of a variety of land systems including gibber plains, black soil flood plains, sand-hill country, table land country and creek systems.[1] Lake Gregory is found in the north east corner of the property.[2] It shares aboundary with Clayton Station to the south west, Murnpeowie to the south east and Etadunna Station to the north.[3]

The property occupies an area of 2,000 square kilometres (772 sq mi) and runs beef cattle, it is a certified organic producer. The Bell family currently own the property and have down so for over 110 years.[1] The property runs a herd of Poll Hereford crossed with Black Angus and also breeds stock and quarter horses.

Geological surveys were conducted in the area in 1885 with bores also being sunk in the area at the same time.[4]

Once part of the Mundowdna run that was owned by Sidney Kidman, a 255 square miles (660 km2) block, called Dulkaninna North East was resumed by the Department of Lands in 1896 and the lease was acquired by George William Barrett.[5] In 1914 the property was owned by Messrs Sinclair, Scott and Company with both sheep[6] and cattle being run at the station.[7]

By 1923 the property was owned by the Avon Downs Pastoral Company.[8] The Bell family acquired the property in 1933.[9] In 1935 the property was suffering a dry spell with D. D. Bell, the owner, intending to start breeding horses at Dulkaninna again.[10] Bell had a pedal wireless installed in the homestead at some time prior to 1929.[11]

George Bell, who had arrived at the station at age 13, died after in 2007 at age 87 after working the 2,000 square kilometres (772 sq mi) for all of his working life. His son Daryl took over the property.[9]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dulkaninna Station". Outback Lakes SA. 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dalkaninna Station". Dulkaninna Station. 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement". BHP Billiton. 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Geological surveys in the north". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 3 January 1885. p. 6. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Dulkaninna Station". Mungerannie Hotel. 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Fertile South Australia.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 10 June 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "The land and the Producer.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 5 November 1914. p. 10. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "The Cattle Market.". The Chronicle (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 15 September 1923. p. 49. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Bush legend, 87, dies". The Advertiser. News Limited. 9 September 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "State's Sahara in the far north.". The Chronicle (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 4 April 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "Flying Doctor base opened". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 29 June 1939. p. 22. Retrieved 24 October 2014.