Carriewerloo Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a

sheep station A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...

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. It is situated approximately north of

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and west of

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. The property was established at some time prior to 1863 when it was owned by James Loudon. In 1865, the property was sold at auction. At this time it occupied an area of and was carrying 5,272 head of sheep.

George Charles Hawker Sir George Charles Hawker (21 September 1818 – 21 May 1895) was a South Australian settler and politician. Early life Hawker was born in London, the second son of Admiral Edward Hawker and his first wife, Joanna Naomi (née Poore). He was edu ...

acquired the station in 1869 and spent much time and money in improving it. The Hawker brothers put Carriewerloo on the market in 1906 along with Parallana, Kolendoa and Moonaree Stations. At his time Carriewerloo occupied an area of of first class

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country. It was stocked with 33,000 Bungaree bred sheep. Scenes from the film The Sundowners were filmed at the property in 1959 and 1960. In 2007 the property was owned by the Michael family. It was carrying a flock of about 25,000 sheep with shearing producing approximately of

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with an average thickness of 22 microns. The land occupying the extent of the Carriewerloo pastoral lease was gazetted by the Government of South Australia as a locality in April 2013 under the name Carriewerloo. The Aurora Solar Thermal Power Project is proposed to be constructed from 2018 and producing 495 GWh of electricity annually from 2020. It will be north of

on Carriewerloo Station.

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{{Stations of South Australia Stations in South Australia Far North (South Australia)

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