# Merna Mora

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**Merna Mora Station** is a [pastoral lease](/source/Pastoral_lease) that currently operates as a [sheep station](/source/Sheep_station), [cattle station](/source/Cattle_station), and tourism venture in the [Flinders Ranges](/source/Flinders_Ranges) of [South Australia](/source/South_Australia).

The property encompasses the very top of [Wilpena Pound](/source/Wilpena_Pound) and goes as far west as [Lake Torrens](/source/Lake_Torrens), and north to Beltana in the central Flinders Ranges.[1]

It is about 43 kilometres (27 mi) north of [Hawker](/source/Hawker,_South_Australia) and 57 kilometres (35 mi) south west of [Blinman](/source/Blinman,_South_Australia).

The Station is composed of a variety of hilly ranges, sandhills and clay plains country, with intermediate to large grass valleys, slopes and flats. Feed available to stock include [black oak](/source/Casuarina_pauper), [Acacia](/source/Acacia), [bullock bush](/source/Alectryon_oleifolius), and other edible shrubs. Grasses include wallaby, windmill, millet, button, buffel, Bindeyi and Rootgrasses. The property has some permanent [springs](/source/Spring_(hydrosphere)) as well as 83 bores and is bisected by the [Central Australia Railway](/source/Central_Australia_Railway).[2]

The property currently occupies an area of 150,000 acres (234 sq mi; 607 km2) and also offers tourist accommodation.[1] The property has been owned by the Fels[3] family since 1886 over five generations and in 1968 they opened up the property to tourists.[4] The Fels family are extremely accomplished bushmen due to long establishment in the outback.

J. A. Fels sold off A 4,000 acres (1,619 ha) portion of the property in 1905. The section had two wells and had not been stocked for three years at the time of sale.[5]

In 1949 the property had been placed on the market by P. L. Fels when it occupied an area of 22,245 acres (9,002 ha) and was divided into six sheep-proof paddocks. It had a four bedrooms [homestead](/source/Homestead_(buildings)) and a galvanized iron [woolshed](/source/Woolshed) end was equipped with three [water wells](/source/Water_well).[2]

The original Merna Mora run was increased in size in 1978 with the Purchase of **Wintabatinya** station (formally 'bosworths lake' station of which sir Sidney Kidman held an interest). and again in 1993 with the purchase of **Motpena** station to give a total area of 290,000 acres, making it one of the largest pastoral properties in South Australia.[citation needed]

## See also

- [List of ranches and stations](/source/List_of_ranches_and_stations)

## References

1. ["Merna Mora Station"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104119/http://www.southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9001383). South Australian Tourism Commission. Archived from [the original](http://www.southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9001383) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2014.

1. ["Family Notices."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93750760). *[The Chronicle](/source/The_Chronicle_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 6 October 1949. p. 36. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

1. ["Merna Mora Station"](http://www.salife7.com.au/flinders-ranges-and-outback/accommodation/farmstays/merna-mora-station). [Government of South Australia](/source/Government_of_South_Australia). 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

1. ["Merna Mora Station, Flinders Ranges"](http://www.weekendnotes.com/merna-mora-station-flinders-ranges/). *Weekend Notes*. On Topic Media. 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.

1. ["Advertising."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88419101). *[The Chronicle](/source/The_Chronicle_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 18 March 1905. p. 22. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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