Legune Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a

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in the

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. Situated close to the border of

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, it is approximately east of Kununurra and east of the live export port of

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in Western Australia and south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The property occupies a total area of , including a portion of floodplain country adjacent to the

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. It is capable of carrying 32,000 head of cattle. In 2014 the property had been placed on the market for an estimated 60 million; it had been last listed in 2008 with a 70 million price tag. Legune was originally an outstation of the

Victoria River Downs Station Victoria River Downs Station, also known as Victoria Downs and in the past sometimes referred to as The Big Run, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia, established in 1883. It is south of ...

. The property was acquired by

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at some time prior to 1980. Hooker sold the property to the

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n Sabah state government in the early 1980s for 2 million. In 2014 Legune was owned by the same families behind Sunny Queen Farms who wanted to sell to focus on their pig and poultry interests. The chairman of the board, Brian McLean, said the property had enormous development potential particularly in the area of

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as it backed onto the Ord Irrigation project and had its own dam on site.

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