Angepena

Angepena Station
Location in South Australia

Coordinates: 30°34′05″S 138°50′45″E / 30.56817°S 138.84586°E / -30.56817; 138.84586 (Angepena)

Angepena Station is a pastoral lease operating as a sheep station in South Australia.

The property is situated approximately 42 kilometres (26 mi) south east of Leigh Creek and 480 kilometres (298 mi) north of Adelaide.

The property was established in 1855 by John Baker who had applied for the Angepena and Pernunna leases the previous year.[1] Baker appointed John Stewart to manage the property. The following year a hut-keeper employed at the property was murdered by Aborigines the following year. After the attack Baker asked for police protection and a police station was built later the same year staffed by four troopers.

In 1888 Angepena occupied an area of 196 square miles (508 km2).[2] It 1904 the owner was J. Snell.[3] The Snell family still owned and resided at the property in 1966.[4]

In 2007 the station was placed on the market and sold to a youth support organization, Operation Flinders. The traditional owners of the area the Adnyamathanha peoples, who had been trying to buy a property in the region for the previous eight years, were devastated and asked the government to halt the sale.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Angepena Station". Flinders Ranges Research. 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sale of the 1888 leases". The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 29 June 1888. p. 6. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "The wool sales". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 1 November 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "A thousand miles with the Flying Doctor.". The Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 11 May 1966. p. 8. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Matt Williams (5 October 2007). "Group beats elders to station". Adelaide Advertiser. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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