sheep station
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The sheep station was taken up by a newly arrived Highland Scot named Niel Black early in 1840.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2019
Robert McBride, whose parched sheep station in the state of New South Wales depends on its flow, estimates that 600km of the lower Darling will run dry this year.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
In Queenstown, before we set out to find the former sheep station Thiel had bought, we went to look for the house he owned in the town itself.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2018
The station is the target of a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups who contend at least one grizzly bear has died because of the sheep station.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
My first trip to the interior was, towards the end of 1841, to the sheep station of my old friend Sam Jackson, situated on the Deep Creek, seventeen miles northward from Melbourne.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by Westgarth, William
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