Dalhousie Station (South Australia)

Dalhousie and other surrounding leases were acquired by the Australian Government in 1985 to make up Witjira National Park.

The ephemeral Finke River passes for a distance of 30 miles (48 km)[1] through the property with several semi-permanent water holes,[2] before petering out well short of Lake Eyre[3] further to the south east.

Bagot was a surveyor who had won the contract to construct the 500 miles (805 km) section of the Overland Telegraph from Port Augusta to the Peak.

[5] R. Sandford was running the property in 1924; the same year good rains fell, filling the water-holes along the Finke.

[7] In the same year massive floods caused a huge tract of land 40 miles (64 km) long and the same width including parts neighbouring Macumba Station to be submerged following heavy rains in the area.