Auvergne shares a boundary with Bullo River Station to the north, Newry to the west and the Winan Aboriginal Land Trust to the south.
[1] Occupying an area of 4,142 square kilometres (1,599 sq mi) of which about half is forested country, a quarter of which is open plains well covered in mitchell and flinders grasses.
Flannigan was arrested at Ord River Station and escorted to Darwin for trial,[6] where he was found guilty and duly executed in 1893.
[9] The property was acquired by Francis Connor and Denis Doherty in 1896, by this stage the station occupied an area of 2,000 square miles (5,180 km2) with frontage onto the Victoria River.
[13] By 1905 the size of the station was estimated at 1,640 square miles (4,248 km2) and had a herd of approximately 20,000 shorthorn cattle said at the time to be "in splendid condition".
[14] A stockman named Alexander McDonald was murdered by Aboriginal people at Auvergne in 1918,[15] he was found by the station manager, Archie Skulthorp, with a spear in his back and the "tracks of a big mob of natives" leading off into the bush.
[20] In 2010 the station manager, Stuart McKechnie, found the fossilised remains of a diprotodon sticking out of a riverbank on the property.