Ucharonidge 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

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in the

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. The property is situated approximately east of Elliott and north of

Tennant Creek Tennant Creek ( wrm, Jurnkkurakurr) is town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the seventh largest town in the Northern Territory, and is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western termin ...

on the

Barkly Tableland The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in Australia. It runs from the eastern part of the Northern Territory into western Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers , 21% of the Northern Terr ...

. It is operated in conjunction with Newcastle Waters and

Dungowan Station Dungowan Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia, approximately south of Darwin. The property occupies an area of and is currently owned by the Consolidated Pastoral Company. The ...

s. The property shares a boundary with Beetaloo Station to the north, Mungabroom to the east,

Helen Springs Station Helen Springs Station more commonly known as Helen Springs is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It is located about south of Elliott and east of Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia. The property shares a bound ...

to the south and Tandyidgee to the west. It currently occupies an area of and carries approximately 20,000 head of cattle. Paul and Florence Beebe drew Ucharonidge lease in a land ballot in 1948. The station was established in 1949 when the Beebe family moved onto the land. Initially the property occupied an area of . By 1951 Ucharonidge, and most of the Northern pastoral lands, were struck by a serious

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, with

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destroying a killing over 2,000 head of cattle. The Beebes left the property for a year until good rains fell. The Beebes were among the first to introduce

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cattle onto the Barkly tableland in the 1960s. In the mid-1960s William James (Mick) and his brother Roy bought the property from their father. Mick Beebe died in 2004 after years spent improving the herd at Ucharonidge. In 2008 the

Consolidated Pastoral Company The Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is a large, privately owned, Australian Agrifood business which operates 8 cattle stations covering over 3.6m hectares, managing more than 300,000 cattle, in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Q ...

acquired Ucharonidge from the Beebe family paying about 28 million.

References

{{Reflist Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory Stations (Australian agriculture) 1949 establishments in Australia

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