Victoria River Downs Station

[2] The lease had been granted by the South Australian government in December 1879 for an area of land 15,890 square miles (41,155 km2).

Fisher ran into monetary problems and following legal battles the property was awarded to Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd in 1889.

In early 1900 Goldsbrough sold the lease and the stock for £27,500 to a syndicate consisting of Forrest, Emmanuel & Company and the Kidman Brothers.

[6] Watson had such a "bad name among the blacks" that the Aboriginal people used as cheap labour on the station had all run away.

[6] In May 1895, a group of Aboriginal people attacked a supply wagon travelling through nearby Jasper Gorge.

Before the police could act, Jack Watson decided to organise a punitive expedition himself, to punish those involved and also try to recover the guns.

[9] In 1902 a partnership between Sidney Kidman and the Emanuel brothers[10] acquired the property which occupied an area of 10,954 square miles (28,371 km2) and was regarded as one of the largest cattle stations in the world.

[11] Sidney Kidman sold Victoria River Downs to Bovril Australian Estates in 1909 along with another two stations, one being Northcote and the other in Western Australia near Wyndham called Carlton Hill for a total of £200,000.

[13] In 1949 the Surveyor General of the Northern Territory, R. Miller, arrived to resume an area of 3,000 square miles (7,770 km2) from the eastern side of the property.

[17] The station and surrounding areas were pounded with heavy rains in February 2010, receiving 747 millimetres (29 in) over the course of the month.

[21] As of February 2004[update], it had an area of 8,900 square kilometres (3,436 sq mi) The property was once the world's largest pastoral property, with an area of 41,000 square kilometres (15,830 sq mi), but following much of the land being resumed it was less than half its former size by 2004, at that time less than half the size of the then largest, Anna Creek Station in South Australia.

[24] The much smaller 1,000 square kilometres (386 sq mi) Humbert River station is on the western boundary.

This station occupies an area of 2,790 square kilometres (1,077 sq mi) and was won in a ballot in 1952 by Paul Vanderleer before having a series of owners, then was finally acquired by AACo.