Английская Википедия:Innamincka Station
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Innamincka Station, often called simply Innamincka, is a pastoral lease in the Australian state of South Australia. It operates as a cattle station. It is located about Шаблон:Convert north-east of the small township of the same name. Шаблон:Convert west of the Queensland border, and Шаблон:Convert south-east of Birdsville. Шаблон:As of the station – the second largest in South Australia after Anna Creek station – occupied an area of Шаблон:Convert and was owned by the pastoral company, S. Kidman & Co.[1]
The name of the station derives from two Aboriginal words meaning your shelter and your home.[2]
History
Innamincka Station was established in 1872 by Robert Bostock as the first station and permanent settlement along Cooper Creek.[3] The station expanded until it covered more than Шаблон:Convert. In 1881, when the station and stock were sold to William Campbell for £60,000, it supported a herd of 8,000 cattle.[4]
A man who became an Australian cattle baron, Sidney Kidman, bought Innamincka in 1908 from the trustees of the estate of William Campbell, when the station covered more than Шаблон:Convert. He immediately sold 250 bullocks in the Adelaide yards, which were much admired for their "breeding and quality".[5] Suffering financially after bad drought, Kidman sold the property in 1918;[6] he later repurchased it.
In 1954, it covered an area of Шаблон:Convert.[7]
In 1981, it covered an area of Шаблон:Convert.[8]
In the late 1950s and the 1960s, the Australian energy company, Santos Limited, conducted a drilling program for oil and natural gas in the Cooper Basin, including at localities near Innamincka; the first commercial gas was discovered in 1963. Eventually 145 gas fields and 76 oil fields came into production, feeding into production facilities at Moomba, Шаблон:Convert to the south-west.[9]
Floods and drought are characteristics of Australian outback localities. Those that affected Innamincka included the following:
- The Cooper Creek inundated the station in 1891.[10]
- The locality was struck by a severe drought in 1902.[11]
- The homestead was washed away during the floods of 1906.
- Between 1914 and 1916 the area was struck by drought, killing about 10,000 cattle at Innamincka.[6][note 1]
- During floods in 1939, water levels came within Шаблон:Convert of the 1906 mark.[12]
- The entire area was struck by drought in 1946, causing many cattle deaths and destocking of properties.[13]
- The area suffered severe flooding in March 1949 when it was hit with record rainfall. More than Шаблон:Convert of rain fell in four weeks – as much as would normally fall in four years.[14] The area was described as a "vast inland sea", with Cooper Creek running at more than Шаблон:Convert wide.[15]
- In 1953 the property only received Шаблон:Convert of rain and only Шаблон:Convert in 1954.[7]
The station had an excellent season in 1981; the country was reported as having "masses of yellow and white wildflowers".[8]
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External links
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