Isis Downs Station
Coordinates: 24°13′12″S 144°37′32″E / 24.22008°S 144.62555°E
Isis Downs Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station but has previously operated as a sheep station in Queensland.
The property is situated approximately 81 kilometres (50 mi) south of Ilfracombe and 88 kilometres (55 mi) west of Blackall. The property is flanked by the Barcoo River
Initially established by Charles Lumley-Hill, W. St John Holberton and W. B. Allen in 1867. They named it after the Isis River, a tributary of the Thames River, in England. The same group advertised the property for sale in 1872 when it was stocked with about 20.000 sheep. By 1877 a town was established not far from the station by William and James Whitman to support the local pastoral industry. To begin with the town was known as Whittown or Whittington but by 1897 was named Isisford. It was sold in 1873 for £17,067 to Messrs Govett and Thomson, Isis Downs North, 8 blocks of unstocked country to the north of the property was sold to Mr. Stevenson for £3750.
In 1877 Isis Downs was acquired by William John Clarke, he owned it until 1883, but let it go. It then changed hands a number of times before Robert Selmon Whiting and William John Clarke's son, Sir Rupert Clarke who acquired it in 1910. The station encompassed an area of 9,000 square miles (23,310 km2) and had commanded a price of £200,000. In 1912 Isis was stocked with 200,000 sheep, a fire tore through the property shortly after shearing the same year resulting in the destruction of the woolshed and 1,200 bales of wool.
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