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Station (Australian agriculture)
In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for livestock production. It corresponds to the North American term ''ranch'' or South American ''estancia''. The owner of a station is called a grazier (which corresponds to the North American term ''rancher'') or ''pastoralist''.
Originally ''station'' referred to the owner's house and the outbuildings of a pastoral property, but it now generally refers to the whole holding.〔
〕 Stations in Australia are, in most cases, on pastoral lease, and are known colloquially as ''sheep stations'' or ''cattle stations'' as most are stock specific, dependent upon the country and rainfall. The operators or owners are thus known as ''pastoralists''.
==Sizes==
Sheep and cattle stations can be thousands of square kilometres in area, with the nearest neighbour being hundreds of kilometres away. Anna Creek station in South Australia is the world's largest working cattle station. It is roughly which is 8,000 km2 larger than Alexandria Station, a cattle station spanning more than 1.8 million hectares in the Northern Territory and four times the size of America's biggest ranch, which is only 6,000 km2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anna Creek Station )〕
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