Host: Gallipoli Station
Owner: North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCO), Manager- Stephen Bryce
Region: Barkly Tablelands, NT
Nearest town for shopping, doctors etc: Mount Isa
Nearest Roadhouse: 96kms south to Camooweal
Number of cattle: Holding capacity is 20,000 head approximately (varies with seasons)
Number of staff: 13
Size of station: 403,000 hectares, 995,834 acres
How often and how the mail is delivered: Mail is delivered once a week via company plane
How often and how the stores shopping is done: Dry store orders every 3 months, fresh fruit and veg and bread, delivered once a week via company plane
How far off the bitumen you are: 96kms of unsealed, inaccessible in the wet
Gallipoli Station is an Outstation of Alexandria Station. Alexandria is the North Australian Pastoral Company’s largest and oldest property and is spread over approximately 3.98 million acres of the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory. Gallipoli Station is currently carrying approximately 15,000 head of breeders.
In addition to the Overseer and his family, there are 10 employees currently at Gallipoli Station. This includes 6 in the stock camp, two pumpers, a grader driver and a cook.
Thanks for having us host for the week. I hope you enjoy our blogs.
NEW PODCAST: Cattle Station Classroom
Have you ever wanted to know more about the northern beef industry? Traditional opportunities to learn about the industry include: university, TAFE, short courses, schools, and on-the-job training. For a number of reasons, whether it be time, money, and/or access, not everyone has the same learning opportunities. The Cattle Station Classroom podcast is a free […]
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Episode 41. Chris Henggeler – The backpacker who bought a cattle station
Imagine this: building a pastoral lease from scratch. I’m talking about walking onto a piece of land that has never been managed or developed – no fences, no man-made waters, no roads – nothing. Sounds like something from the 1800’s right? A story of the settlers? Well, this actually happened in the late 1980s, when […]
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Adventure, before dementia!
Written by Sally Scott – Yougawalla Station What on earth could persuade us to leave our beautiful farm, garden, house and family in Margaret River to go to one of the most geographically isolated properties in the Kimberley? Well, there are a lot of reasons: a bored husband, family succession planning, a yearning to get […]
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ISTJ’s – the most common tribe in the bush
Written by Sarah Cook – Aileron Station. Bush people are drawn to our own circles. We live together, we work together – and then we socialise together. We appear to have similar values, think similarly and heck – even vote the same way. It makes me wonder, is there any other industry quite as full […]
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Sustainability: different country, same concept
Written by Frances Cooper – Mt Riddock Station Studying land management at university seems like a fairly normal pathway into working in Australia’s extensive rangelands…right? Well, maybe if I’d studied in Australia it would be. However, I completed my studies in the UK and let’s just say that Central Australia is a little bit different […]
