Horseshoe Bend Station

[1] Situated upstream of Crown Point Station, the homestead is on the Depot sandhills, 23 kilometres (14 miles) south of the junction of the Finke and the Hugh Rivers.

[2] The property includes a 2,000 square kilometres (772 sq mi) desert block that has never been developed.

The former Central Australia Railway line passed about 72 kilometres (45 mi) west of the homestead.

[1][2] The area around the station was hit hard by drought in 1897, so much so that several of the surrounding properties were abandoned.

[1] He arrived at Horseshoe Bend in 1922 after a 250 kilometres (155 mi) buggy ride from Hermannsburg while en route to reach medical treatment in Adelaide.

Two women on horseback at Horseshoe Bend Station, 1922
The hotel on Horseshoe Bend station, when the property was a staging post for the Overland Telegraph Line and the North–South Road; it also operated a post office