{{Short description|Pastoral lease and cattle station in Northern Territory}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Location map|Northern Territory|label=Limbunya Station |position=right |lat_deg=17.231|lat_dir=S |lon_deg=129.888|lon_dir=E |caption=Location in Northern Territory}} {{coord|17.231|S|129.888|E|type:landmark_region:AU|name=Limbunya|display=title}}
'''Limbunya Station''' is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
==Location== The property is situated approximately {{convert|100|km|mi|0}} west of the community of Daguragu and {{convert|540|km|mi|0}} south of Darwin. The property shares a boundary with Waterloo Station to the north and Inverway, Riveren and Bunda Stations to the south. The Daguragu Aboriginal Land Trust bounds Limbunya to the east with the Malngin Aboriginal Land Trust to the west.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf |title=Northern Territory Pastoral Properties |year=2003 |accessdate=5 April 2015 |publisher=Northern Territory Government |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409202959/http://pitac.org.au/wp-content/documents2/Part_B_Checklist/4._NT_Pastoral_Map_June_2013.pdf |archivedate= 9 April 2015 }}</ref>
==Description== Limbunya occupies an area of {{convert|5222|km2|sqmi|0}} and typically supports a herd of 35,000 cattle.<ref name=R1>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtp.com.au/hserentals/inewsfiles/20110715_Limbunya_Station_-_Life_Skills_Program_for_website_lifeskills.pdf |title=Life Skills Program |year=2010 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |publisher=HSE Pastoral |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329162338/http://www.gtp.com.au/hserentals/inewsfiles/20110715_Limbunya_Station_-_Life_Skills_Program_for_website_lifeskills.pdf |archivedate=29 March 2012 }}</ref> Cattle are raised for the live export trade and shipped out from Darwin to markets in Indonesia, Egypt and the Philippines.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
Split up into 21 paddocks ranging in size from {{convert|60|ha|acre|0}} to {{convert|18000|ha|acre|0}}, the property is also equipped with six sets of processing yards. The property has about {{convert|750|km|mi|0}} of fencing and {{convert|300|km|mi|0}} of internal roads.<ref name=R1/> Stock are watered by 11 bores and 12 dams as well as numerous springs and creeks situated on the property.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
The homestead is composed of three houses, staff kitchen, guest quarters, cooks quarters, social club, workshop and machinery shed. The station has six permanent employees and also employs up to eight life skills participants at any one time.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
==History== Vestey brothers owned the property in 1928;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48037236 |title=Arbitration Court. |newspaper=The Northern Standard |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=6 March 1928 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> the property was being run as part of another of their properties, Waterloo Station.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49489747 |title=The bagmans gazette |newspaper=The Northern Standard |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=19 April 1932 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The station manager in 1935 was Mr. L. Bumpa.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35940759 |title=Two airliners with mails |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane|date=20 December 1935 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The well known stockman, Sing Poo, was killed at Limbunya in a car accident in 1950.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49482029 |title=Famous Stockman Killed. |newspaper=The Northern Standard |location=Darwin, Northern Territory |date=6 January 1950 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> One of the largest bushfires seen in the Territory burned through the area in 1951. The fire front was about {{convert|200|mi|km|0}} wide and burned about half of Limbunya.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27531557 |title=State Bushfires Checked: Huge N.T. Blaze. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=25 October 1951 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> About sixty Aboriginal workers walked off the job at Limbunya as part of the Gurindji Strike that started at another Vestey property, Wave Hill Station.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107064837 |title=Aborigines walk off jobs. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=27 July 1968 |accessdate=2 June 2014 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Tony Davis acquired Limbunya in 1996 for an amount less than A$15 million. In 2004 he also added Moroak Station to his portfolio and later placed Limbunya on the market in 2008 where it was expected to fetch A$35 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/barefoot-cattleman-walking-on-gold/story-e6frg6po-1111115917502|title=Barefoot cattleman walking on gold|author=Paul Toohey|date=29 March 2008|accessdate=2 June 2014|work=The Australian}}</ref>
==See also== *List of ranches and stations
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Stations in the Northern Territory