page_title: Station (Australian agriculture)
section_title: Outstations
hierarchical_section_title: Station (Australian agriculture) / Improvements / Outstations
caption_attribution_description: English: "A black-and-white photograph of Cattle Creek, then an outstation of Wave Hill Station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. The photograph shows living quarters and various outbuildings, and also gives an impression of the flat dry landscape in this part of NT. A water reservoir, possibly for use by cattle, is visible in the foreground." (http://tlf.dlr.det.nsw.edu.au/learningobjects/Content/R11294/object/r7756.htm)
context_page_description: In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for producing livestock, predominantly cattle or sheep, that need an extensive range of grazing land. It corresponds to American ranches that operate under the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 on public lands. The owner of a station is called a pastoralist or a grazier.
  Originally station referred to the homestead – the owner's house and associated outbuildings of a pastoral property, but it now generally refers to the whole holding. Stations in Australia are on Crown land pastoral leases, and may also known more specifically as sheep stations or cattle stations, as most are stock-specific, dependent upon the region and rainfall.
  If they are very large, they may also have a subsidiary homestead, known as an outstation.
context_section_description: Historically, an outstation was a subsidiary homestead or other dwelling on Australian sheep or cattle stations that was more than a day’s return travel from the main homestead. Although the term later came to be more commonly used to describe a specific type of Aboriginal settlement, also known as a homeland community, it is still used on cattle and sheep stations today, for example the Sturt Creek Outstation of the Ruby Plains Station in The Kimberley, and Rawlinna sheep station, Australia’s largest operating sheep station.
caption: Cattle Creek outstation of Wave Hill, NT, 1962
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