Eringa 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 stat ...

in the outback of

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, once owned by Sir

Sidney Kidman Sir Sidney Kidman (9 May 18572 September 1935), known as Sid Kidman and popularly named "the Cattle King", was an Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia in his lifetime. Early life Sidne ...

. Its land is gazetted as a

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called Eringa in 2013. It is situated south of

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and east of

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. The area is hilly and has a better average rainfall than much of the surrounding country. The rarely dry waterhole, the Eringa waterhole, was once situated within the boundaries of the station.

History

Established at some time prior to 1879 it was owned by Arthur Treloar and J. J. Duncan, with Treloar managing the property. By 1886 Eringa was stocked with 4,000 head of cattle and 150 horses. The property was acquired in 1899 by

, in the same year he also acquired Austral Downs and Carcoory Stations. Kidman named his his home in Kapunda, which he acquired around 1900, after this property. In 1908 the property occupied an area of . The area had excellent rains in 1910 with over being recorded over a few days with creeks in the area all flooding. In 1955 the station was being managed by Mr. W. L. Franklin and was running 5,000 head of cattle. The station buildings are now derelict and the leasehold is part of the Hamilton Station. The land occupying the extent of the Eringa Station pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Eringa".

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{{Stations of South Australia Pastoral leases in South Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) Far North (South Australia)

History

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