Mundi Mundi Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a

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. The property is situated approximately west of Broken Hill and north west of

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. Mundi Mundi is one of the four original stations in the

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settled through the early 1870s along with Mount Gipps,

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and Alberta Stations. The property was established by the Whitting family who were running stock in the area from the 1860s when the property had an occupied an area of . The Whittings were running sheep but also were raising horses. The family were the first Europeans to settle in the Barrier Range and their daughter, Tryphena, was the first European to be born in the area. John Lewis had cattle stolen from the property in 1901. Lewis still owned the property in 1906 when he and other pastoralists in the area formed the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling. Lewis had also once owned other runs such as

Nilpena Nilpena Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated approximately west of Blinman and north of Hawker in the Flinders Ranges and bounded by Lake Torrens. It occupies an area of . Hist ...

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and Nelyambo. In 1930 the property was carrying 12,000 sheep. Following a

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in 1943 the station manager, J. D. Kelly, sold off 7,100 sheep from the property leaving a flock of 9,000. The 1999

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film ''

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'' is set in Mundi Mundi, although the "Mundi Mundi Pub" is actually the nearby Silverton Hotel. In addition, at the beginning of ''

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'' (a movie set in a post-apocalyptic world) - a sign with "Mundi Mundi Lookout" can be seen as Max collects petrol.

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{{Reflist Pastoral leases in New South Wales Stations (Australian agriculture)

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