Carandotta

Carandotta is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in Queensland, Australia. Situated about 98 km west of Dajarra and 441 km north of Birdsville, it encompasses a mix of floodplain and high pebbly downs, well-covered in Mitchell and Flinders Grasses and lightly timbered with bloodwood, gidyea, and coolibah trees. The property has frontage onto the Georgina River, including a permanent waterhole over 20 miles long. Established in 1884 by a syndicate of pastoralists headed by Oscar De Satge, Carandotta has a rich history, including ownership by Sidney Kidman in 1903. In the early 1950s, the station was plagued by dingoes, with 800 being killed from 1952 to 1953. Later, the lease was taken up as part of Headingly Station, which occupies an area of 10,032 km² of Queensland's Gulf country and is able to carry a herd of approximately 40,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle. It is currently owned by the Australian Agricultural Company.