De Rose Hill, South Australia

De Rose Hill is a pastoral lease used as a cattle station in the far north of South Australia.

The property, which is as of 2019^[update] owned by the Stanes family, covers approximately 1,780 km² (690 sq mi), and its average annual rainfall is 9 in (230 mm) p.a. It lies on mostly deeper granite country, with oatgrass plains. Cattle are transported from the Stanes family's breeding properties, Lyndavale and Mount Ebenezer, and De Rose Hill, where they are finished for slaughter. The family also owns smaller properties closer to Adelaide, which are used for hay and fodder production for the larger properties.^[1]

Aboriginal Australian advocate and leader Lowitja O'Donoghue was born somewhere on De Rose Hill.^[2]

Native title rights exist over the station, which are managed by the De Rose Hill-Ipalka Aboriginal Corporation. The claim was made in 1994 by 12 people on behalf of the Nguraritja people. Originally refused, it won on appeal in 2005.^[3]

References

1. "Lyndalvale Case Study". Angus Australia. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
2. Rintoul, Stuart (2020), Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue, Allen & Unwin, pp. 5, 24, 40, ISBN 978-1-76087-560-2
3. "De Rose Hill – Ipalka Aboriginal Corporation". Native Title Corporations. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2023.

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