Mount Victor Station Explained

Mount Victor Station is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station located about 115km (71miles) east of Hawker and 175km (109miles) west of Broken Hill in the state of South Australia,

The property and neighbouring Plumbago Station occupy an area of 494000acres of arid country which has a mean annual rainfall of 8inches.^[1]

The property is stocked with 32,000 poll merino sheep and 120 cattle.

The property was established by Dr C. G. Hawker prior to 1859,^[2] one of many holdings passed onto his children following his death in 1895.Mount Victor was one of many properties owned by Michael Seymour Hawker along with Bungaree, Partacoona, McCoy's Well and Sturt's Meadow.^[3]

The station was acquired in 1971 by H.G. MacLachlan of the Jumbuck Pastoral Company who still owned it in 2012.

The land occupying the extent of the Mount Victor pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality by the Government of South Australia on 26 April 2013 under the name 'Mount Victor Station'. The term 'station' was added to prevent duplication of the locality name within Australia.^[4]

See also

• List of ranches and stations

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mount Victor. 2012. 29 December 2012. Jumbuck Pastoral Company.
2. News: The Darling . . Adelaide, South Australia . 21 February 1859 . 29 December 2012 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
3. Web site: Obituaries Australia -Hawker, Michael Seymour (1857–1933) . 2012. 29 December 2012. Australian National University.
4. Web site: Search result for "Mount Victor Station (LOCB)" (Record no SA0067132) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" . Property Location Browser . Government of South Australia . 5 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dead .