Dulkaninna

{{Short description|Pastoral lease in South Australia}}

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Dulkaninna Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback South Australia.

It is along the Birdsville Track approximately {{convert|84|km|mi|0}} north of Marree at the southern end of the Tirari Desert. The property is composed of a variety of land systems including gibber plains, black soil flood plains, sand-hill country, table land country and creek systems.{{cite web|url=http://www.outbacklakessa.com.au/stations/dulkaninna-station.html|title=Dulkaninna Station|year=2012|access-date=20 October 2014|publisher=Outback Lakes SA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911015940/http://www.outbacklakessa.com.au/stations/dulkaninna-station.html|archive-date=11 September 2014|df=dmy-all}} Lake Gregory is in the north-east corner of the property.{{cite web|url=http://www.dulkaninnastation.com.au/about-us.html|title=Dalkaninna Station|year=2012|access-date=21 October 2014|publisher=Dulkaninna Station|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141021042117/http://www.dulkaninnastation.com.au/about-us.html|archive-date=21 October 2014|url-status=dead}} It shares a boundary with Clayton Station to the south-west, Murnpeowie to the south-east and Etadunna Station to the north.{{cite web|url=http://www.bhpbilliton.com/home/society/regulatory/Documents/odxEisChapter9LandUse.pdf|title=Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement|year=2009|access-date=26 October 2014|publisher=BHP}}

The property occupies an area of {{convert|2000|km2|sqmi|0}} and runs beef cattle; it is a certified organic producer. The Bell family own the property and have down so for over 110 years. The property runs a herd of Poll Hereford crossed with Black Angus and also breeds stock and quarter horses.

Geological surveys were conducted in the area in 1885 with bores also being sunk in the area at the same time.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44550595 |title=Geological surveys in the north|newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=3 January 1885 |access-date=23 October 2014 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Once part of the Mundowdna run that was owned by Sidney Kidman, a {{convert|255|sqmi|km2|0}} block called Dulkaninna North East, was resumed by the Department of Lands in 1896, and the lease was acquired by George William Barrett.{{cite web|url=http://www.mungeranniehotel.com.au/dulkaninnastation.html|title=Dulkaninna Station|year=2012|access-date=21 October 2014|publisher=Mungerannie Hotel}} In 1914 the property was owned by Messrs Sinclair, Scott and Company with both sheep{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6420029 |title=Fertile South Australia. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=10 June 1914 |access-date=24 October 2014 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and cattle being run at the station.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5426822 |title=The land and the Producer.|newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=5 November 1914 |access-date=24 October 2014 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The property was abandoned in 1920.{{Citation | last1=Leader-Elliott |first1=Lyn | last2=Iwanicki |first2=Iris |title=Heritage of the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks : part of the Far North & Far West Region (Region 13) | url= https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Birdsville-and-Strzelecki-Tracks-Heritage-Survey-2002.pdf |publication-date=2002 | publisher=South Australian Dept. for Environment and Heritage | isbn=978-0-646-42140-7 | page =95 }} By 1923 the property was owned by the Avon Downs Pastoral Company.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87536910 |title=The Cattle Market. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=15 September 1923 |access-date=24 October 2014 |page=49 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The Bell family acquired the property in 1933. In 1935 the property was suffering a dry spell with D. D. Bell, the owner, intending to start breeding horses at Dulkaninna again.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92360712 |title=State's Sahara in the far north. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=4 April 1935 |access-date=24 October 2014 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Bell had a pedal wireless installed in the homestead at some time prior to 1929.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74414096 |title=Flying Doctor base opened |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=29 June 1939 |access-date=24 October 2014 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

George Bell, who had arrived at the station at age 13, died after in 2007 at age 87 after working the {{convert|2000|km2|sqmi|0}} for all of his working life. His son Daryl took over the property.{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/bush-legend-87-dies/story-e6frea83-1111114380423|title=Bush legend, 87, dies |date=9 September 2007|access-date=21 October 2014|work=The Advertiser|publisher=News Limited}}

The land occupying the extent of the Dulkaninna pastoral lease was gazetted by the Government of South Australia as a locality in April 2013 under the name 'Dulkaninna'.{{cite web |title=Search result for "Dulkaninna (LOCB)" (Record no SA0067050) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=2 June 2016 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}