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Mount Nor' West

Mount Nor' West 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 located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Marree and 50 kilometres (31 mi) north west of Lyndhurst.

The lease was taken up by Henry McConville in 1874 when it occupied an area of approximately 2,000 square kilometres (700 sq mi). McConville already owned Myrtle Springs Station and would later acquire Witchelina and Angepena Stations.

The station was acquired by Sidney Kidman at some time before 1899. At this time only a few cattle were being run on the eastern side of the property. Kidman still owned the property in 1903 when the property occupied an area of 2,000 square kilometres (800 sq mi). In 1908 a flock of 14,053 sheep were shorn at the station. and the size of the station was 850 square kilometres (330 sq mi).

Kidman estates disposed of Witchelina, Mount Nor' West, Myrtle Springs and Ediacra stations with a combined area of over 5,000 square kilometres (2,000 sq mi) in 1950. The purchasers were A. S. Toll, E. G. and J. L. Boynthon who had established the Myrtle Springs Pastoral company.

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Mount Nor' West Wikipedia