Qualla: Innamincka Station https://qualla.com/innamincka-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/h/4/innamincka-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Innamincka Station https://qualla.com/innamincka-station Innamincka Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/innamincka-station/ Photo credit Kdliss - Klaus-Dieter Liss, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name says it gently: Innamincka comes from two Aboriginal words meaning your shelter and your home. It is a kind name for one of the harshest places in Australia. The station sits on Cooper Creek in the far northeast corner of South Australia, twenty-three kilometres from the Queensland border, on the traditional country of the Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka people. This is the same stretch of Cooper Creek where the Burke and Wills expedition came undone in 1861, and where the Yandruwandha kept the sole survivor alive. A decade later, the cattle came. In 1872 Robert Bostock established Innamincka as the first station and the first permanent European settlement along the Cooper.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/h/4/innamincka-station-wp/r5h4-innamincka-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Innamincka Station: A Station the Size of a Country https://qualla.com/innamincka-station/ Photo credit Kdliss - Klaus-Dieter Liss, CC BY-SA 3.0. It is hard to overstate the scale. At its largest Innamincka covered more than fifteen thousand square kilometres, making it the second-biggest station in South Australia after the legendary Anna Creek. When Bostock sold up in 1881, the run carried a herd of eight thousand cattle...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/h/4/innamincka-station-wp/r5h4-innamincka-station-a-station-the-size-of-a-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Innamincka Station: Flood, Drought, Repeat https://qualla.com/innamincka-station/ Photo credit Kdliss - Klaus-Dieter Liss, CC BY-SA 3.0. Life here is governed by water that comes in violent extremes. The record reads like a litany. Cooper Creek inundated the station in 1891. Severe drought struck in 1902. The homestead was simply washed away in the floods of 1906. Between 1914 and 1916, drought killed roughly ten ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/h/4/innamincka-station-wp/r5h4-innamincka-station-flood-drought-repeat.mp3 0:06 3 full Innamincka Station: An Ocean of Gas Beneath the Dust https://qualla.com/innamincka-station/ Photo credit Kdliss - Klaus-Dieter Liss, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the late 1950s and 1960s the surface story was joined by a deeper one. The energy company Santos began drilling for oil and gas in the Cooper Basin, the ancient sedimentary basin that lies beneath the station and far beyond it. The first commercial gas was struck in 1963, and ...

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