The Strzelecki Creek also flows through the property all the way to the northern Flinders Ranges are found to the south of the station.
George Goyder then surveyed the area in 1857 and John Baker then took up a 200 square miles (518 km2) lease and stocked the property with cattle in 1858.
[2] Augustus Charles Gregory and his party arrived at Blanchewater in 1858 trekking in from the north east from what was believed to be trackless desert and impassable salt lakes.
[3] Harry Redford and his accomplices George Dewdney and William Rooke stole between 600 and 1,000 cattle from Bowen Downs Station in Queensland.
The men then overlanded the stock approximately 1,300 kilometres (808 mi) down Cooper Creek to outback South Australia.