Roxby Downs Station

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Roxby Downs Station
South Australia
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Roxby Downs Station
Coordinates 30°42′S136°42′E / 30.7°S 136.7°E / -30.7; 136.7
Established1910
Location20 km (12 mi) southwest of Roxby Downs (township)
Footnotes [1]

Roxby Downs Station was a pastoral lease in central northern South Australia.

The land that became Roxby Downs Station is the traditional country of the Kokatha people. After European colonisation, it was part of Parakylia station, or perhaps Andamooka Station. [2] [3] [4] In about 1910, it became a separate station and was given the name "Roxby Downs" by its initial owner, Norman Richardson, apparently after the town of Roxby, Queensland, from where the first cattle for the station were said to have come.[ citation needed ]

On 10 December 1910, the Adelaide Observer wrote: "Norman Richardson has the Chance Swamp and the Sister's Well paddock, once a portion of the old Parakylia run, as well as Lake Campbell country, in all an area of 350 square miles. This he has called Roxby Downs..." [3]

With the development of the Olympic Dam mine and the associated service town of Roxby Downs, the station was taken over by BHP, which remains the present owner of the pastoral lease.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Placename Details: Roxby Downs". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 13 September 1990. SA0059550. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "THE NOR'-WEST COUNTRY". The Mail . No. 11. South Australia. 13 July 1912. p. 3 (SECOND SECTION.) – via National Library of Australia.
  3. 1 2 "BUSH AND STATION TOPICS". The Observer . Vol. LXVII, no. 5, 310. South Australia. 10 December 1910. p. 11 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "STOCK AND STATION NOTES". The Australasian . Vol. CIII, no. 2, 694. Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1917. p. 4 – via National Library of Australia.
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