Bowen Downs Station
Coordinates: 22°28′08″S 145°00′11″E / 22.469°S 145.003°E
Bowen Downs Station is a pastoral lease that has operated both as a cattle station and a sheep station.
It is located about 49 kilometres (30 mi) east of Muttaburra and 61 kilometres (38 mi) north west of Aramac in the outback of Queensland. It is watered by the Thomson River and tributaries Reedy Creek and Cornish Creek that all run through the property.
The traditional owners of the area are the Iningai peoples. The first Europeans to visit the area were the explorers William Landsborough and Nathaniel Buchanan who passed through in 1860. Landsborough named the area Bowen Downs after the Queensland Governor, Sir George Bowen. By 1861 the area was opened for settlement the pair applied for the lease. To finance the station Landsborough and Buchanan formed a partnership with Robert Morehead and Matthew Young, of the Scottish Australian Investment Company, and Edward Cornish, a friend of Landsborough.
The property was established in 1862, and was the last post people travelling further inland could purchase provisions. Nat Buchanan was the initial manager of the property that was stocked with 3,000 cattle. The property occupied as area of 1,500 square miles (3,885 km2) at the time.Aramac Station, to the south of Bowen Downs, was next to be settled in 1863.
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