Dungowan Station 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 operates as a
cattle station 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 ...
of Australia, approximately south of
Darwin.
The property occupies an area of and is currently owned by the
Consolidated Pastoral Company. The station is run in conjunction with
Newcastle Waters Station which is located away. Over 13,000 head of cattle graze the property with approximately 5,000 claves being branded each year.
It was owned in the 1980s by The Hon Charles Sweeney QC, an Australian pastoralist and later Chief Justice of Tuvalu, a major interest of whom was
water security. He was a relative of Michael and Paul Vandeleur who owned Mataranka Station.
Approximately of pastoral country was burnt out by a fire that burnt for over a week. A large portion of Dungowan Station, most of Birrimba Station, some of Murranjai and a little of
Killarney Station were burnt out.
The rare and sexually fluid bush tomato ''
Solanum plastisexum'' ("Dungowan bush tomato") grows nearby.
See also
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List of ranches and stations
References
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Stations in the Northern Territory