Amburla 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 Pastoral farming, graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands. Austral ...

that operates as a

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in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

of Australia. The property is situated approximately north of

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and west of

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. Amburla occupies an area of . The most productive area of the property are the

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plains at the foot of Mount Hay and the relict alluvial plains of the floodout areas of Amburla, Charley and 16-Mile Creeks. The sandy red earth of the floodouts support mulga woodlands. The northern part of the property is composed of sandplains supporting spinifex. Gary Dann, father of television actor Troy Dann, owned the property in 1989. The Danns sold the property in 2007 to Sterling Buntine. Buntine sold the station in 2011 for A$6 million to local cattleman Tony Davies.

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{{Reflist Stations in the Northern Territory

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