Argyle Downs

Argyle Downs is a pastoral lease and cattle station located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south east of Kununurra in the Kimberley region near the border of Western Australia and Northern Territory.

The station occupies an area of 1,000 square kilometres (386 sq mi) and is a mix of black soil plains and red basalt country with the Ord River and Lake Argyle situated on the western boundary.

The 3000 mile journey of cattle to stock Argyle Downs and Ivanhoe Station is the longest of its type ever recorded.

[3] The Duracks exported the cattle from the station through the port of Wyndham to markets as far as South Africa and North America.

Built from limestone blocks and mortar made from crushed termite mounds, the homestead had to be dismantled to make way for Lake Argyle in the 1970s.