| 词条 | Alexandria Station (Northern Territory) |
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|position=left |lat_deg=19|lat_min=03|lat_sec=28|lat_dir=S |lon_deg=136|lon_min=42|lon_sec=28|lon_dir=E |caption=Location in Northern Territory}}{{Coord|19|03|28|S|136|42|28|E|type:landmark_region:AU|name=Alexandria|display=title}}Alexandria Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station and is Australia's second largest pastoral property after Anna Creek station.[1] LocationIt is located about {{convert|173|km|mi|0}} north west of Camooweal and {{convert|273|km|mi|0}} east of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Alexandria shares a boundary to the west with Alroy Downs and Brunette Downs Station, to the north with Mittiebah and Mount Drummond Station, to the south with West Ranken, East Ranken, Adder and Rocklands Stations and to the east with the Queensland border. Several ephemeral waterway cross the property including the Buchanan river, Ranken River, Buchanan Creek, Cigarette Hole Creek and other smaller tributaries. The South Barkly Stock Route crosses the property at the south west corner.[2] DescriptionOccupying an area of {{convert|16116|km2|sqmi|0}} of open plains, floodplain and wooded sandhills situated on the Barkly Tableland and was established prior to 1877.[3] The station is currently one of 15 properties owned by the North Australian Pastoral Company who has owned it since 1877, making Alexandria NAPCos oldest and largest property. The plains are covered with Mitchell grass that supports a herd of about 55,000 cattle and allow the owners to harvest some 10,000 bales of hay per annum for use on other properties in the group.[4] Alexandria shares a boundary with Mittiebah Station, another NAPCo. property. 50 employees live on the station with the main homestead being situated close to the Playford River. Two outstations are found on the property; Soudan is along the Rankin River and Gallipoli which is on the eastern side of the lease. Initially Alexandria used to run Shorthorn cattle but in 1982 the decision was made that Brahman would be more suitable for the harsh environment, particularly the heat and ticks. Since then Belmont and Charbray cattle have been added to the herd. HistoryA gruesome murder was committed at the station in 1885 when a station hand named Ross was killed by Aborigines using an axe they had stolen from the man's camp. The murderers were pursued the following day but never found. Another man named John Corbett died at the station in the same year when the dynamite he was using to deepen a well exploded prematurely causing him to fall to the bottom. He later died of shock and his other injuries.[5] Heavy flooding occurred in the area about the station during the monsoon of 1895. Alexandria received {{convert|17|in|mm|0}} of rain in January 1895.[6] In 1901 the area had the best rains since 1894 with {{convert|17|in|mm|0}} falling over 4 days that April.[7] Drought followed the next year with the station's bores also running dry despite being sunk to a depth of {{convert|400|ft|m|0}}[8] The cattle king, Sidney Kidman, announced in 1907 that he would be purchasing all the male cattle produced on the station for the next three years. Kidman expected a total of between 9,000 and 10,000 head of cattle to be acquired.[9] Stock had to be quarantined in an area of {{convert|10|sqmi|sqkm|0}} around Borrodo waterhole in 1918 following an outbreak of red-water amongst cattle that were travelling to Brunette Downs Station.[10] By 1923 the size of the property was estimated at {{convert|10500|sqmi|km2|0}} and was the second largest run in the Northern Territory after Victoria River Downs, which occupied {{convert|13100|sqmi|km2|0}}.[11] Periodic flooding is a way of life in Alexandria, with both the Playford and Rankin rivers breaking their banks. In 1939 over {{convert|6|in|mm|0}} of rain fell over the course of two days during the wet season. At the time Alexandria had no boat and a passenger who had arrived by plane had to be ferried across the Playford in a bathtub.[12] Peter Sherwin was a Jackaroo at Alexandria in 1946 when he was 16 years old, he remained here for six years before leaving to Helen Springs Station. Sherwin would later on purchase a string of properties including Victoria River Downs Station in 1986.[13] Alexandria and the rest of the Tablelands were struck by drought in 1952 which was eventually broken by heavy falls in May of that year.[14] The station had an estimated size of {{convert|11000|sqmi|km2|0}} at the time and recognised as being one of the best developed and most keenly husbanded property in the north.[15] In 1955, Alexandria and other stations in the surrounding area were victims of the largest cattle duffing ring since the war years. The duffers were caught after several months of tracking down the stolen beasts in hidden gullies around the area. A special court was set up at Alexandria to hear the charges.[16] Much of the station was left underwater following heavy rains in 2009[17] and 2012 where flooding turned the area into an inland sea.[18] See also
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.napco.com.au/alexandria/|title=Alexandria|last=|first=|date=2017|website=|publisher=North Australian Pastoral Company|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213225623/https://www.napco.com.au/alexandria/|archive-date=14 December 2018|dead-url=no|access-date=14 December 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf |title=Northern Territory Pastoral Properties |year=2003 |accessdate=6 April 2015 |publisher=Northern Territory Government |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409202959/http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf |archivedate=9 April 2015 }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ntca.org.au/our_people/peatling.html |title=Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association |accessdate=9 December 2012 |date=2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410080234/http://ntca.org.au/our_people/peatling.html |archivedate=10 April 2013 }} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.napco.com.au/default.asp?PageID=9&n=Alexandria |title=Northern Australian Pastoral Company |accessdate=9 December 2012 |date=2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409033512/http://napco.com.au/default.asp?PageID=9&n=Alexandria |archivedate=9 April 2013 }} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3157628 |title=News and notes |newspaper=The Northern Territory Times |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=23 May 1885 |accessdate=15 December 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9310138 |title=Heavy floods in the Northern Territory |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania|date=16 March 1895 |accessdate=19 February 2013 |page=1 Supplement: The Mercury Supplement. |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4279251 |title=News and Notes. |newspaper=The Northern Territory Times |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=24 May 1901 |accessdate=15 December 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4296786 |title=News and Notes. |newspaper=The Northern Territory Times |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=15 August 1902 |accessdate=15 December 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4355195 |title=Our Eastern pastoral letter |newspaper=The Northern Territory Times |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=20 December 1907 |accessdate=15 December 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 10. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3289825 |title=G.N 35.18 Stock and brands Department |newspaper=The Northern Territory Times |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=15 June 1918 |accessdate=15 December 2012 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48011874|title=Makin it good for a few. Million acre leases of the Territory|newspaper=The Northern Standard|location=Darwin, Northern Territory|date=18 September 1923 |accessdate=16 March 2013|page=1|publisher=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62816746 |title=Rankine River notes. |newspaper=Townsville Bulletin |location=Queensland |date=9 February 1939 |accessdate=17 December 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 13. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.toowoombahotel.com.au/toowoomba-hotel-articles/1989/1/7/peter-sherwin-the-battles-of-a-real-strange-critter/|title=Peter Sherwin: The Battles Of A Real Strange Critter |accessdate=14 January 2013|work=|publisher=Toowoomba Hotel|date=7 January 1989}} 14. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18265927 |title=Falls on tablelands |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=New South Wales |date=24 May 1952 |accessdate=16 December 2012 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 15. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50314993|title=Beating NT drought|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|location=Brisbane|date=16 May 1952 |accessdate=10 March 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 16. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71878934 |title=Police say they've caught 'duffers'. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Melbourne|date=27 April 1955 |accessdate=16 December 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 17. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-09/floodwaters-cover-alexandria-station-in-the/262134|title=Floodwaters cover Alexandria Station in the Northern Territory|date=9 January 2009 |accessdate=5 January 2013|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}} 18. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-08/flooding-has-turned-the-alexandria-station-in-the/260372|title=Flooding hits Alexandria Station|date=27 April 2012 |accessdate=5 January 2013|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}} 3 : Stations (Australian agriculture)|Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory|1877 establishments in Australia |
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