Momba Station on the
Paroo River and the
Darling River was established by the brothers Edward and
Frederic Bonney. Frederic arrived in 1865 to join his brother after both of them had been attracted to the country by their uncle,
Charles Bonney. Frederic Bonney sold the station and went back to the United Kingdom in 1881 due to his brother's poor health. Bonney however recorded some important anthropology through his writing and his enthusiasm for photography. Some of his original images were lost, but his work has been published in two books and they include photographs of the
Paakantyi. These were the Aboriginal people who lived near the Paroo river who became labourers on the station. In the late 1860s the property occupied an area of .
Charles Dickens' son,
Plorn, was withdrawn from school and he was at Momba Station a few days before his sixteenth birthday in 1868. In 1884 the property occupied an area of , At the time it extended north from the
Darling River at Wilcannia and was wide. It was owned by the Momba Pastoral Company, the principals of which later formed
Elders. in 1906 when he and other pastoralists in the area formed the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling. Momba was advertised in 1913 with a total area of and carrying a flock of 55,000 sheep, 44 cattle and 154 horses. At his time the property had approximately of double frontage to the
Darling River including the flood plains and wetlands of the
Paroo River. Timms disposed of 100,000 sheep to Ben Chaffey of Moorna Station. Later the same year, Timms sold of a portion of the station to Messrs King and Allison of Wilcannia. In 1924 the station was put up for auction by Timms and
Sidney Kidman as part of an aggregation of over 1.4 million acres. Momba with an area of , Mount Murchison with , Purnanga with , and two smaller leases which all had a combined carrying capacity of approximately 100,000 sheep. Struck by
drought in 1927, the property had been carrying 9,000 head of cattle but only 2,000 were expected to survive. In 1950 the remainder of the property was divided into ten leases including Peery, Mandalay and Arrowbar. ==The station today==