Dunbar Station (Queensland)
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Dunbar Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station in Queensland, Australia. The homestead is located on the Burke Developmental Road, Maramie in the Shire of Carpentaria.[1]
It is located approximately 93 kilometres (58 mi) south east of Kowanyama and 227 kilometres (141 mi) north east of Normanton in the Gulf Country of Queensland. The property is situated within the Nassau River catchment with both the Nassau and the Mitchell Rivers also flowing through the property.[2] An additional 13 creeks and 8 lagoons are found on the property all useful for watering stock.[3] The country is composed of flat open plains with the soil being grey clay loam derived from the Cainozoic age, sands of Quaternary age with other alluvium. The vegetation is low open eucalypt savannah surrounded by coarse grasses.[2]