Bunda 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 stati ...

in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

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. Situated approximately west of

Lajamanu Lajamanu, formerly known as Hooker Creek Native Settlement or just Hooker Creek, is a small town of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located around from Katherine and approximately from Darwin. At the 2016 Australian census, Lajama ...

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 i ...

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 pr ...

until it was carved up into Inverway, Bunda and

Riveren Riveren Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated approximately north west of Lajamanu and south west of Daguragu in the Victoria River district, the property was origina ...

Stations. Bunda is bounded to the west by

Kirkimbie Kirkimbie Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated approximately west of Lajamanu and north east of Halls Creek near the border with Western Australia. The property occ ...

, the south by Wallamunga, the east by Inverway and the north by

Limbunya Limbunya Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location The property is situated approximately west of the community of Daguragu and south of Darwin. The property shares a b ...

Station. The property currently occupies an area of and is stocked with 13,500

Brahman In Hinduism, ''Brahman'' ( sa, ब्रह्मन्) connotes the highest universal principle, the ultimate reality in the universe.P. T. Raju (2006), ''Idealistic Thought of India'', Routledge, , page 426 and Conclusion chapter part X ...

and Charbray infused cattle. To water stock 22 bores have been sunk. The Underwood family have owned the property since 1956 when it was still part of Inverway Station.

Consolidated Pastoral Company The Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is a large, privately owned, Australian Agrifood business which operates 8 cattle stations covering over 3.6m hectares, managing more than 300,000 cattle, in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and ...

acquired the station, adjacent to

which it already owns, in the Victoria River District in the Northern Territory for approximately 15 million in 2014. The property had been passed in at auction two years earlier for 10 million.

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

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