Marqua 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 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

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. It is situated about south of Alpurrurulam and north east of

Alice Springs Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' Al ...

. The property shares a boundary with Tarlton Downs to the west,

Manners Creek Station Manners Creek Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated about south of Alpurrurulam and north east of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs. The property ...

to the north,

Tobermorey Tobermorey Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Central Australia, Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory. Tobermorey is on the western edge of Punthamara territory Location The property is situated app ...

to the east and the Atnetye Aboriginal Land Trust to the south. Marqua Creek, from which the station takes its name, flows through the property at the south eastern end. The property is very close to the

Plenty Highway The Plenty Highway is a outback mostly unsealed road in the Northern Territory of Australia between the Stuart Highway and north-western Queensland. Route description The road begins at a turnoff from the Stuart Highway north of Alice Spring ...

, which almost intersects the north west corner. In June 2011 the property was sold for 7.22 million on a walk-in walk-out basis. The property had been acquired by John and Mary Atkins, who also own Spion Kop Station near

Taroom Taroom is a town in the Shire of Banana and locality split between the Shire of Banana and the Western Downs Region in Queensland, Australia. At the , Taroom had a population of 869 people. Geography The town is located on the Dawson River ...

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, who were breeding cattle at Marqua then trucking them to Spion Kop. In September of the same year the area was plagued by the largest

bushfires A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identif ...

that had been seen there since the 1970s; some of Marqua Station was burnt out. After a prolonged dry period the property received of rain over four days in January 2020. The owner, Blair Power, reported roads and fencing being damaged but the country was responding well to the rains.

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

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