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Andado


Coordinates: 25°24′32″S 135°17′28″E / 25.40897°S 135.29102°E / -25.40897; 135.29102 (Andado)

Andado Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory.

It is situated about 170 kilometres (106 mi) south of Ltyentye Apurte Community and 240 kilometres (149 mi) south east of Alice Springs. The property shares a boundary with Crown Point Station to the west, Allambi to the north west, Pmere Nyenti Aboriginal Lands trust to the north and east and the border with South Australia to the south. The homestead is the easternmost habitation on the western side of the Simpson Desert.

The station occupies an area of 10,850 square kilometres (4,189 sq mi) and the largest privately held station in Australia. The property is situated on the western edge of the Simpson Desert and has a portion of the ephemeral Finke River flowing through the property. It is composed of a mix of land systems including desert sand plains and sand dunes, gibber plains, low hills and rises, flood-out country, swamps and lakes. The swamplands are found between tall dunes and only flood intermittently. Vegetation communities include large areas of spinifex grassland, saltbush shrublands, and acacia and eucalypt woodlands.


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