Dulkaninna Station is a

pastoral lease A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands. Australia Pastoral lease ...

that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback

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. It is along the Birdsville Track approximately north of Marree at the southern end of the

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. 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.

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is in the north-east corner of the property. It shares a boundary with Clayton Station to the south-west,

Murnpeowie Murnpeowie or Murnpeowie Station is a pastoral lease in outback South Australia. The pastoral lease once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station. The land occupying the extent of the pastoral lease was gazetted as a ...

to the south-east and

Etadunna Station Etadunna is a pastoral lease in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Etadunna and which is operating as a cattle station. In about 1867, German Lutheran missionaries J.F. Gossling and E. Homann, Brothe ...

to the north. The property occupies an area of and runs beef cattle; it is a certified

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producer. The Bell family own the property and have down so for over 110 years. The property runs a herd of Poll

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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. Once part of the Mundowdna run that was owned by Sidney Kidman, a block called Dulkaninna North East, was resumed by the Department of Lands in 1896, and the lease was acquired by George William Barrett. In 1914 the property was owned by Messrs Sinclair, Scott and Company with both sheep and cattle being run at the station. The property was abandoned in 1920. By 1923 the property was owned by the Avon Downs Pastoral Company. The Bell family acquired the property in 1933. In 1935 the property was suffering a dry spell with D. D. Bell, the owner, intending to start breeding horses at Dulkaninna again. Bell had a pedal wireless installed in the homestead at some time prior to 1929. George Bell, who had arrived at the station at age 13, died after in 2007 at age 87 after working the for all of his working life. His son Daryl took over the property. The land occupying the extent of the Dulkaninna pastoral lease was gazetted by the Government of South Australia as a locality in April 2013 under the name 'Dulkaninna'.

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