Glenormiston Station
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Glenormiston Station most commonly known as Glenormiston is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Queensland, Australia.
Description
Glenormiston is located about 113 kilometres (70 mi) west of Boulia and 335 kilometres (208 mi) north of Birdsville in Central West Queensland. Located at the top of the Channel Country the property shares a boundary with Marion Downs Station. The Georgina River flows through the north eastern part of the property as it journeys southward further into the channel country.[1]
The station occupies an area of 6,920 square kilometres (2,672 sq mi) and encompasses a variety of country from the Toko Range to the west to the floodplains to the east.[1]
The land on the property is described as being composed of open and broken downs, with river and creek flats, low limestone ridges, inferior flats and rough hills. An assessing commissioner also noted that it is light carrying country, safe if not over-stocked and is excellent country for raising an fattening heavy cattle.[2]
History
Aborigines once traded Pituri north along the Georgina River into Wangka-yutyurru country and south along the Mulligan River to the Lake Eyre system. The creek near the homestead is named Pituri Creek and it flows into Lake Idamea. J.A Coglan lived in the homestead in the 1890s.[2]
The station was established prior to 1881 when it was put up for auction. At this time the station was 1,100 square miles (2,849 km2) in area and was stocked with a herd of 3,000 highly bred Durham and Hereford cattle, some horses, all plant, stores and stock.[3] The lands was described as open rolling downs with saltbush and cotton bush, thickly grassed with Mitchell grass and other varieties. Interspersed with open paches of gidyah, mulga and other timbers. Later the same year an unfortunate cook, who had only taken up the position a copule of days earlier, was killed by Aborigines in the area.[4]
A meteorite, known as the Glenormiston meteorite, was found on the station by the manager of the day, whose name was Mr F. H. Story, in 1925. Story then sold the object to the University of Queensland in 1926. The meteorite had a mass of 38.5 kilograms (85 lb), has an irregular sub-triangular shape with convex and concave surfaces.[5]
The North Australian Pastoral Company acquired Glenormiston in 1968. The adjoining property, Marion Downs, was acquired at about the same time. Stephen and Narda Bryce moved to the property in 2001 and Stephen was still managing the property and about ten staff in 2012. The property has a carrying capacity of about 7,000 head of cattle depending on the season.[1]
Moderate flooding was experienced at Glenormiston in 2010 following heavy rains locally and further north in the Georgina catchment.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Glenormiston". North Australian Pastoral Company. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "Glenormiston station, c1930". Queensland Historical Atlas. 3 May 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne, Victoria: National Library of Australia. 18 August 1881. p. 3. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ "Country News". The Queenslander. Brisbane, Queenland: National Library of Australia. 5 November 1881. p. 583. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ "The Glenormiston Meteorite" (PDF). 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "Rain has cleared from states west". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 January 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2013.