The lease for Corunna was first taken up in 1861 for
pastoral purposes. Messrs Scott and Nickolls owned the property in 1867. In 1888 a
prospector named William Jones applied for a mining lease south of Corunna, which was granted in 1890. The French family acquired the property in 1977. In 2005 the family took the
federal government to the
Federal Court of Australia after it tried to acquire the property. The Government wanted to take the property and give it to the
Barngarla Aboriginal people as compensation for the land the Government took from them for the
Australian Army's
Cultana training area. The family spent 100,000 fighting the acquisition and won in 2013. The Government subsequently appealed to the Full Bench of the Federal Court, but then shortly afterwards decided to withdraw the appeal. The land occupying the extent of the Corunna Station pastoral lease was gazetted by the Government of South Australia as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Corunna Station". ==See also==