"Mt Margaret" Homestead – Queensland

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Mount Margaret Station

Mount Margaret Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station and more recently as a cattle station. It is located about 98 kilometres west of Quilpie and 177 kilometres south of Windorah in Queensland. The property has extensive and reliable water supply with 80 kilometres of double frontage on the Wilson River and associated creeks.

Mount Margaret was once Queensland’s and Australia’s largest sheep station, occupying an area of 599,000 hectares (1,480,161 acres) which makes it larger than the nation of Brunei. The station was sold in 2010 for $12 million; it was free of stock at the time but included all plant and equipment and was sold to New South Wales cattle producer Kilburnie Pastoral Co.

In 1937 the Peel River Pastoral Company who had acquired the station in 1925 sold the property for £50,000 to the Killeen Brothers; at this

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