Stuart Creek
Coordinates: 29°43′00″S 137°01′59″E / 29.7167°S 137.033°E
Stuart Creek Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback South Australia.
It is located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Roxby Downs and 140 kilometres (87 mi) north west of Lyndhurst. The property is bounded to the north by Lake Eyre South, to the east by Billa Kalina Station, the south by Mulagaria and Andamooka Stations and to the east by Finniss Springs Aboriginal lands. The ephemeral watercourse, Stuart Creek, runs through the property.
The property is a mixture of land types including sandhills, breakaways, mound springs and gibber plains.
Currently the lease is held by BHP Billiton and occupies an area of 6,500 square kilometres (2,510 sq mi).
The first European to pass through the area was John McDouall Stuart in 1858 who named the Creek Chambers Creek. He was awarded a claim in the area and the creek was later renamed Stuart Creek. By 1862 Stuart was in ill-health and sold his claim to Alfred Barker and John Chambers. Barker stocked the property but significant stock losses during the drought of the late 1860s and early 1870s. he drought that struck from 1864 to 1865 was broken by floods in 1866. John Howard Angus acquired the property in 1870.
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