Mount Margaret Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a
sheep station
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and more recently as a
cattle station
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. It is located about west of
Quilpie
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and south of
Windorah
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Geography
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in
Queensland
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. The property has extensive and reliable water supply with of double frontage on the
Wilson River and associated creeks.
Mount Margaret was once Queenslands and Australias largest sheep station, occupying an area of which makes it larger than the nation of
Brunei
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.
The station was sold in 2010 for $12 million, it was free of stock at the time but included all plant and equipment and was sold to
New South Wales
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cattle
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producer Kilburnie Pastoral Co.
In 1937 the Peel River Pastoral Company who had acquired the station in 1925 sold the property for £50,000 to the Killeen Brothers, at this point the station was stocked with 10,000 head of cattle and 250 horses, but it was believed that the Killeens would make the change to sheep.
Owned in 1956 by the Killen family's Pastoral Development Holdings (formerly Elsinora), the property ran a flock of 76,000 sheep and 5,000 cattle. The adjoining properties include Malagarga and Kihee stations, both of which, at different time, have been owned along with Mount Margaret. The property was then purchased by Mr T. M. Gadsby in 1969 and was owned and managed by the Gadsby family until late 1979.
The station was acquired in 2004 by Mike Gordon's, the Bydand Pastoral Company, from the
Yass
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based Reid family.
Bydand put the property on the market in 2009 and sold in 2010 to Kilburnie Pastoral Co. which still owned the property in 2012. The station has been breeding and selling
Angus
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cattle. The price tag, with no stock, was approximately 12.5 million.
See also
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List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
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List of the largest stations in Australia
This is a list of the largest stations in Australia, which includes stations with an area in excess of .
All of the largest pastoral leases are located in the states of South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA); or in the ...
References
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Stations in Queensland
South West Queensland