Corona Station (pastoral lease)

Corona Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in the outback of New South Wales.

It is situated about 74 kilometres (46 mi) north of Broken Hill and 164 kilometres (102 mi) west of White Cliffs. Corona is one of the four original stations in the Barrier Range settled through the early 1870s along with Mount Gipps, Mundi Mundi and Alberta Stations. The station currently occupies an area of 52,000 acres (21,044 ha) and is able to carry a flock of about 13,000 sheep.

Daniel Harvey Patterson acquired Corona in 1875 along with Menamurtree station near Wilcannia. Patterson soon took an interest in the Broken Hill mine and later became a director and Chairman of BHP. By 1883 the owners had spent £75,374on improvements.

Corona produced over 2,090 bales of wool in 1890.

Patterson sold off his pastoral interests including Corona in 1894. During the depression of the 1890s combined with falling wool prices and drought many of the properties in the area including Corona, Sturts Meadows, Mount Arrowsmith, Langwirra, Elsinora and Thurloo Downs fell into the hands of finance companies. Corona was acquired by Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd.

The Corona Pastoral Company sold the property in 1911 to Messrs. T. L. Browne and H. H. Dutton. The station was stocked at this time with a flock of 60,000 sheep, 280 cattle and 190 horses. In 1912 when shearing was in full swing the men went on strike over a butter allowance which was not resolved until an AWU representative travelled to Corona to settle the strike.

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