Crown Point Station

The ephemeral Finke River flows through the property which is bordered by Engoordina Station.

[1] The property is named after Crown Point, a pyramid shaped hill with flattened apex,[2] near to a gorge along the Finke.

[3] The country is mostly gently undulating well covered by Mitchell grass and other fodder suitable for stock.

[6] The owner of the property in 1890 was James Cowan who, along with another man named Bullimore, was killed in a railway accident the same year.

[7] The property occupied an area of 4,500 square miles (11,655 km2) and was stocked with approximately 7.000 head of cattle and was being managed by Mr Ross.

Crown Point, ca. 1905
Some of the 1,100 head of cattle at Crown Point Station in the Northern Territory, 838 miles north of Adelaide, ca. 1925