Willochra Plain

The area falls in the view from Mount Brown Lookout and from walking trails in The Dutchmans Stern Conservation Park.

From the eastern escarpment he found that the ranges overlooked extensive "well-wooded and watered country", now called the Willochra Plain, stretching from what is now Melrose northward toward Quorn.

[3] Burr's encouraging reports of his discoveries in this region immediately led to the arrival of European pastoralists.

The Ragless brothers survived the drought but later lost the property when it was carved up into paddocks to grow wheat.

[5] Much of the plain lies north (outside) of Goyder's Line, which since 1865 has delineated the limits of South Australian lands suitable for agricultural settlement because of being semi-arid and drought-affected.