Tanbar Station

[1] Established at some time prior to 1884 by John Costello he sold it to Armitage and Gillately shortly after taking it up.

[2] In 1886 the property was having a good season with 6 inches (152 mm) of rain recorded in less than a month and all the waterholes were full[3] John Henderson was running Tanbar in 1888.

[8] By 1931 the station encompassed an area of 3,000 square miles (7,770 km2) and was managed by Robert John Kyle Little but the property was still owned by Rocklands.

[11] Western Grazing acquired Tanbar, from the Stanbroke Pastoral Company, in 2004 at the same time as Rocklands Station found further to the north-west along the Northern Territory border.

[12] Currently still owned by the Western Grazing Company the property occupies an area of 8,300 square kilometres (3,205 sq mi) and is managed by Dustin and Luisa Tuite.

Tanbar Station, November, 1939