Mount Victor Station
Mount Victor Station is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station located about 115 kilometres (71 mi) east of Hawker and 175 kilometres (109 mi) west of Broken Hill in the state of South Australia,
The property and neighbouring Plumbago Station occupy an area of 494,000 acres (199,915 ha) of arid country which has an mean annual rainfall of 8 inches (203 mm).[1]
The property is stocked with 32,000 poll merino sheep and 120 cattle.
The property was established by Dr C. G. Hawker prior to 1859,[2] one of many holdings passed onto his children following his death in 1895. Mount Victor was one of many properties owned by the Michael Seymour Hawker along with Bungaree, Partacoona, McCoy's Well and Sturt's Meadow.[3]
The station was acquired in 1971 by H.G. MacLachlan of the Jumbuck Pastoral Company who still owned it in 2012.
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