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Thurloo Downs Station most commonly known as Thurloo Downs is a
Thurloo Downs Station most commonly known as Thurloo Downs 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 has operated as both a sheep station and a cattle station in outback New South Wales. It is located approximately north of White Cliffs and north west of Bourke on the Berawinnia Creek close to the Queensland border.
The property is about two thirds lightly timbered open country with the remainder made up of sandhills and stony ridges.
History
Established prior to 1883 in that year it was owned by Messrs Rowan and Mactier. The property was inspected in 1896, when John Samuel Barrow was manager, and occupied an area of and was fully enclosed with eight tanks, one dam and one well. John Augustus Ibbott acquired the property in 1903 and settled there with his family of five sons and two daughters. Sidney Kidman acquired the property in 1918 along with Urisino and Elsinora from Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. In 1954 part of Thurloo Downs, along with Elsinora Station were resumed for thesoldier settlement
Soldier settlement was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under soldier settlement schemes administered by state governments after World War I and World War II. The post-World War II settleme ...
scheme for returned servicemen from Korea and Malayan operation forces. The total area resumed was , forming a block known as Kendabooka and was first drawn by Lieutenant Joe Waites.
Thurloo Downs will be the site of a Total Solar Eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
on 25 November, 2030.
See also
* List of ranches and stationsReferences
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