Stuart Creek Station

The property is a mixture of land types including sandhills, breakaways, mound springs and gibber plains.

[2] Currently the lease is held by BHP and occupies an area of 6,500 square kilometres (2,510 sq mi).

[3] The drover, W. Rose, overlanded 1,260 cattle from Newcastle Waters Station a distance of 1,000 miles (1,609 km) to Stuart Creek over a 12-week period in 1910.

At this time it occupied an area of approximately 5,000 square miles (12,950 km2) and was experiencing a good season.

[6] The company put the property up for auction of 1916 when it occupied an area of 5,934 square kilometres (2,291 sq mi) but it was passed in and remained unsold.

Musterers on horseback, Stuart Creek Station 1897
Stuart Creek with Lake Torrens in the background