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Riveren Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a
cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm (station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a ''grazier''. The largest cattle statio ...
in the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Au ...
of Australia. Situated approximately north west of Lajamanu and south west of
Daguragu __NOTOC__ Daguragu, previously also known as Wattie Creek by the Gurindji people, is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin and located about south-west of the municipal seat in ...
in the Victoria River district, the property was originally part of
Inverway Station Inverway Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location It is situated approximately north west of Lajamanu and south west of Daguragu in the Victoria River district. The p ...
, which was carved up into Inverway, Bunda and Riveren Stations. All of the holdings are situated in the headwaters of the Victoria River. The property shares a boundary with Inverway to the east, Limbunya Station to the north, Birrindudu to the south and the Daguragu Aboriginal Land Trust to the east. The country is a mix of black soil plains covered with pastures of Mitchell grass, Queensland blue and silky brown top grasses. The red dirt country supports stands of spinifex. The station occupies an area of , and in 2012 was carrying a mixed herd of approximately 23,000 cattle. Mick and Georgia Underwood sold the property in a private sale along with Inverway Station in 2013 to the Indonesian company Japfa Santori for an estimated 35 million. The decision came following live export ban on livestock by the Gillard government in 2011. The station had been passed in at auction in 2012 for 19 million. Terry Underwood wrote about Riveren in her memoirs, ''In The Middle of Nowhere'' and ''Riveren: My home, Our country''.


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List of ranches and stations This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance. West Africa *Obudu Cattle Ranch * S ...


References

{{Reflist Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory Stations (Australian agriculture)