StateLibQld 1 137300 Tanbar Station, November, 1939

Tanbar 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 currently 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 Tanbar,

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, Australia. It is located approximately south west of

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and north east of Innamincka in the

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. The

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runs through the property. Established at some time prior to 1884 by John Costello he sold it to Armitage and Gillately shortly after taking it up. In 1886 the property was having a good season with of rain recorded in less than a month and all the waterholes were full John Henderson was running Tanbar in 1888. Mr B. Richardson acquired both Tanbar and Abbottsford Station, which is also on Cooper Creek, in 1903. By 1907 the Christian brothers owned Tanbar. The property was sold in 1911 when it was stocked with 10,000 cattle by the Christian brothers to the Rocklands Pastoral Company for £30,000. By 1931 the station encompassed an area of and was managed by Robert John Kyle Little but the property was still owned by Rocklands. One neighbouring property at the time was Keeroongooloo Station. Isolated by flood-waters for over a month in 1949, aeroplanes had to conduct food drops to Tanbar and surrounding areas In 2002 Tanbar was having a poor season and was stocked with 5,000 head of cattle, down from the 24,000 head it was able to carry. Western Grazing acquired Tanbar, from the

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, in 2004 at the same time as Rocklands Station found further to the north-west along the

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border. Currently still owned by the Western Grazing Company the property occupies an area of and is managed by Dustin and Luisa Tuite.

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{{Reflist Stations (Australian agriculture) Pastoral leases in Queensland South West Queensland Lake Eyre basin

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