The Buntine Highway cuts through the property for a distance of 68 kilometres (42 mi).
Camfield currently occupies an area of 2,790 square kilometres (1,077 sq mi) and is owned by the Australian Agricultural Company.
The property was once part of Victoria River Downs Station but was resumed as part of a returned servicemen scheme in 1952 and taken up by the Vandeleur family who won the leasehold in a ballot.
[2] In 1968 nine Indigenous stockmen and their families walked off the property to join the land claim protest at Wattle Creek at neighbouring Wave Hill Station.
[3] In 1977 the Malaysian state of Sabah bought Camfield for A$1.8 million to ensure regular supplies of reasonable priced beef for their domestic market.