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Baker died in 1872 and the executors of the estate sold the 1,050-square-mile (2,719 km) property stocked with 1,000 horses and 2,5000 cattle to E. M. Bagot. Blanchewater and the other five properties of Bakers including Wirrabunna, Peninsula and Lake Albert sold for a total of £130,000,
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and his party arrived at Blanchewater in 1858 trekking in from the north east from what was believed to be trackless desert and impassable salt lakes. The group had followed the
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then surveyed the area in 1857 and John Baker then took up a 200 square miles (518 km) lease and stocked the property with cattle in 1858.
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and his accomplices George Dewdney and William Rooke stole between 600 and 1,000 cattle from
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It is situated approximately 134 kilometres (83 mi) north east of
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proving it to be the best way to travel through the interior from the
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the stock approximately 1,300 kilometres (808 mi) down
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also flows through the property all the way to the northern
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Blanchewater is located in South Australia
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29°33′00″S 139°27′08″E / 29.54998°S 139.45236°E / -29.54998; 139.45236 (Blanchewater)
cattle station
far north
South Australia
Lyndhurst
Innamincka
Lake Blanche
Strzelecki Creek
Flinders Ranges
Benjamin Babbage
Governor McDonnell
George Goyder
Augustus Charles Gregory
Strzelecki Creek
Pacific
Southern Ocean
Harry Redford
Bowen Downs Station
Queensland
overlanded
Cooper Creek
South Australia
Thomas Elder
List of ranches and stations
ISBN
9781922036278
"Blanchewater Station"
"Strzelecki Creek National Heritage Place, Strzelecki Tk, Innamincka, SA, Australia"

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