Complex sentence: The station was actually originally taken up by the noted explorer of the district Angus MacMillan on behalf of his then employer Lachlan Macalister in 1839, but was abandoned shortly after in 1841 with the settlement of large areas of in the more central parts of Gippsland.
Split into simpler sentences: The station was actually originally taken up by the noted explorer of the district Angus MacMillan on behalf of his then employer Lachlan Macalister in 1839. This was abandoned shortly afterwards in 1841 with the settlement of large areas of in the more central parts of Gippsland.