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Curtin Springs is a pastoral lease operating cattle station in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory. Occupying an area of the working cattle station and roadhouse facility is located on the Lasseter Highway, east of Yulara and the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. The property shares a boundary with pastoral leases Angas Downs to the north west, Lyndavale to the south east and Mulga Park to the south. It also abuts the Katiti Aboriginal Land Trust to the west. The land was originally known as Mount Conner Station in the 1930s when it was first taken up by Paddy DeConlay. Abraham Andrews leased Mt Conner Station, together with vacant crown land, which became known as Curtin Spring Station around 1940, after John Curtin.〔(Curtin University - Places, buildings, events, etc commemorating John Curtin's prime ministership )〕 Curtin Springs was built in 1943 and is now owned and operated by the Severin family who took over the pastoral lease in 1956.〔(History ) Retrieved on 6 July 2009〕 Water for the station and livestock is supplied by pumping it from underground with diesel or solar pumps and windmills. Cattle watering points are located in yards so that they may be passively mustered by water trapping. Murray Grey cattle are increasingly being used to improve the herd’s temperament and quality.〔Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society, Grey Country Magazine, June 2009, ''Murray Greys in the Red Centre'', p.15〕 The Severin family now offer accommodation and other services to tourists. There is also a campground with free camping without electricity and sites with electricity. There are bathrooms with showers. The station has a collection of birds and emus that are walking around the premises. Local tours include the Amadeus Salt Lake Chain and Mount Conner. In 2011 the area was plagued by the largest bushfires that had been seen there since the 1970s, some of Marqua Station was burnt out. More bushfires, started from lightning strikes ignited bushfires at the station in September 2012, the Lasseter Highway had to be closed in the area due to the resulting smoke hazard. More fires started from dry storms in October and were left to burn in areas that were inaccessible and high winds made containment too difficult. The station lost over of bush, nearly a quarter of its pasture land, as a result of the fires. ==See also== *List of ranches and stations *List of the largest stations in Australia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Curtin Springs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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