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Cattle station

Buchanan was associated with the opening up and stocking of several cattle stations in the Victoria River district and the Ord River region.


Elyne Mitchell

According to an interview with Tom Wright, the "Silver Brumby" series arose from Mrs Mitchell's difficulties in finding suitable reading material for her daughter Indi, then 10 and being raised in some isolation on the Mitchell family property Towong Hill, a remote cattle station in the Snowy Mountains.


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Algie's Romance

The film was shot on a cattle station owned by the Downer family in South Australia, near the Mount Lofty Ranges.

Auvergne

Auvergne Station, a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia

Bordesley railway station

The station still carries the painted lettering "BR(W) Bordesley Cattle Station", and "Bordesley Cattle Station GWR" from the time when, as part of the Great Western Railway and later British Rail's (Western) region, it was used to bring cattle from the countryside to the Bull Ring markets.

Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve

The craters are named for Henbury Station, a nearby cattle station named in 1875 for the family home of its founders at Henbury in Dorset, England.

Herbert River

The second season of the U.S. reality television series, Survivor, was filmed on the "Goshen" cattle station in the upper Herbert River region, near the Blencoe Falls and Herbert River Gorge.

James Alpin McPherson

After finishing his schooling, McPherson first started work at a stoneyard on the corner of Wharf and Queen streets in Ipswich, owned by a Mr. Petrie, before finding work on a cattle station.

Kanyaka

Kanyaka Station, an abandoned cattle station in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Marion Downs

Marion Downs Station, a cattle station in the Channel Country of Queensland

Victoria River Downs

Victoria River Downs Station, a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia

We of the Never Never

Her husband was a partner in Elsey cattle station on the Roper River, some 300 miles (483 km) south of Darwin.