sheep-stations

Updated: May 23, 2025

Small vessels anchor behind an island on the west side of this cape, to take away the wool from the sheep-stations in the neighbourhood. A small bay, with some outlying rocks off its points, bearing South-South-East, seven miles from Ninth Island, affords shelter for small vessels in its north-west corner.

John Lort Stokes - Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2: Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers: Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The: Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners: Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits: To the Islands in the Arafura Sea

And the next day, Brandon was on board, and soon on the high seas, on his way back to his sheep-stations and his troubles. Francis Hogarth's Canvass And Election

Catherine Helen Spence - Mr. Hogarth's Will

November and December are the busy months at sheep-stations, all hands being then employed in clipping the wool and preparing it for market. On the Paterson, we were never troubled with those dangerous characters called in the Colony, Bush-rangers.

G. F. Davidson - Trade and Travel in the Far East: or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,: Singapore, Australia and China.

I shall now proceed to offer a few observations upon sheep and sheep-stations. A sheep-station is, probably, the most desolate place at which a man could be sent to pass his time.

G. F. Davidson - Trade and Travel in the Far East: or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,: Singapore, Australia and China.