Momba Station
Coordinates: 30°58′34″S 143°30′00″E / 30.976°S 143.5°E
Momba Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in New South Wales. The property is situated approximately 42 kilometres (26 mi) south east of White Cliffs and 66 kilometres (41 mi) north east of Wilcannia.
Momba Station on the Paroo River and the Darling River was established by the brothers Edward and Frederic Bonney. Frederic arrived in 1865 to join his brother after both of them had been attracted to the country by their uncle, Charles Bonney. Frederic Bonney sold the station and went back to the United Kingdom in 1881 due to his brother's poor health. Bonney however recorded some important anthropology through his writing and his enthusiasm for photography. Some of his original images were lost, but his work has been published in two books and they include photographs of the Paakantyi. These were the Aboriginal people who lived near the Paroo river who became labourers on the station.
In the late 1860s the property occupied an area of 6,000 square kilometres (2,317 sq mi).Charles Dickens' son, Plorn, was withdrawn from school and he was at Momba Station a few days before his sixteenth birthday in 1868. He worked as a at Momba in the late 1860s to 1872 when he established Yanda Station.
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