Victoria River Downs Station

Victoria River Downs Station also often called Victoria Downs and often referred to as The Big Run is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station.

It is located about 102 kilometres (63 mi) south east of Timber Creek and 252 kilometres (157 mi) west of Daly Waters in the Northern Territory. The property abuts the Daguragu Aboriginal Land Trust to the south, Camfield Station, Montejinni and Killarney Stations to the east, Delamere to the north and Humbert River Station and the Bilinarra-Jutpurra Aboriginal Land Trsut to the west. The Auvergne and Wave Hills Stock routes both pass through the station as does the Buntine Highway that passes through the south east corner.

Currently Victoria River Downs has an area of 8,900 square kilometres (3,436 sq mi) The property was once the world's largest pastoral property with an area of 41,000 square kilometres (15,830 sq mi), but following much of the land being resumed it is now less than half its former size, and less than half the size of the current largest, Anna Creek station.

Several watercourses pass through the property including the Wickham River, Camfield River, Townsend River, Humbert River, Gill Creek, Blackskin Creek, Depot Creek, Jasper Creek and Battle Creek.

The property is composed of several land types including ridges and plateaus on sandstone or dolomite, gently undulating plains of dolomite overlaid with loamy soils, limestone outcrops and alluvial floodplains with cracking clays. Vegetation includes wire grass, white grass and black spear grass on the red earth country with stands of ribbon grass, flinders grass, blue grass and feathertop wire grass on the clay country.

The station has been operating for over 100 years and is currently owned by Heytesbury Pty. Ltd.. The eastern boundary of Victoria River Downs adjoins Killarney Station, Killarney was exised from Victoria Downs when the station exceeded 10,000 square miles (25,900 km²) in size. The much smaller 1,000 square kilometres (386 sq mi) Humbert River station is on the western boundary.

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