The station is located in the Murchison region of Western Australia; the nearest town is Cue,[1] 17 kilometres (11 mi) to the south east of the homestead.
An area of 118 square kilometres (46 sq mi) within the station is composed of reserves and crown land.
[5] Later the same year a bank clerk named Studds from Cue committed suicide on the property and was found several weeks later with his revolver still in his hand.
[6] In 1911 a 70-year-old man from the Day Dawn goldfields, Jimmy the Fiddler, left the station in very hot weather and was found a week later 7 miles (11 km) from a well.
J. P. Meehan reported that 2.5 inches (64 mm) rain fell in 20 minutes and several trees were hit by lightning.
The rain broke drought conditions and refilled both the nearby Wire Pool and then flowed through the station onward to Lake Austin.