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Wollogorang Station


Coordinates: 17°12′40″S 137°56′53″E / 17.211°S 137.948°E / -17.211; 137.948 (Wollogorang)

Wollogorang Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station straddling the border the Northern Territory and Queensland.

The property is situated approximately 124 kilometres (77 mi) north west of Doomadgee and 180 kilometres (112 mi) west of Burketown. The homestead overlooks Settlement Creek. It has approximately 50 miles (80 km) of frontage onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The property is bordered by the Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary and Calvert Hills Station to the west, the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north, the Queensland border to the east and the Waanyi-Garawa Aboriginal Land Trust to the south.

Several watercourses flow through the property including Branch Creek, Settlement Creek, Gold Creek and Running Creek.

Wollogorang occupies an area of 7,057 square kilometres (2,725 sq mi). and is able to carry more than 40,000 head of cattle.

The name Wollogorang in the local Indigenous Australian peoples language means Happy running waters, the name comes from Settlement Creek which runs through the property.


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