Mount Victor Station

Mount Victor Station
Location in South Australia

Mount Victor Station is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station located about 115 kilometres (71 mi) east of Hawker and 175 kilometres (109 mi) west of Broken Hill in the state of South Australia,

The property and neighbouring Plumbago Station occupy an area of 494,000 acres (199,915 ha) of arid country which has an mean annual rainfall of 8 inches (203 mm).[1]

The property is stocked with 32,000 poll merino sheep and 120 cattle.

The property was established by Dr C. G. Hawker prior to 1859,[2] one of many holdings passed onto his children following his death in 1895. Mount Victor was one of many properties owned by the Michael Seymour Hawker along with Bungaree, Partacoona, McCoy's Well and Sturt's Meadow.[3]

The station was acquired in 1971 by H.G. MacLachlan of the Jumbuck Pastoral Company who still owned it in 2012.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mount Victor". Jumbuck Pastoral Company. 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "The Darling". South Australian Register (Adelaide, South Australia: National Library of Australia). 21 February 1859. p. 3. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Obituaries Australia -Hawker, Michael Seymour (1857–1933)". Australian National University. 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.

Coordinates: 32°03′27″S 139°37′08″E / 32.05762°S 139.61898°E / -32.05762; 139.61898

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