Mount Gipps Station

The station was established around 1863 by the Barrier Ranges Company, which included George Urquhart, the owner of the neighbouring Kinchega Station. The property takes its name from Mount Gibbs, named by Charles Sturt during his expedition of 1844. The original Indigenous name for Mount Gipps is Coonbaralba. Mount Gipps was the first established station in the Barrier Range area and one of the first west of the Darling River. By 1877 the property encompassed about and supported a flock of 71,000 sheep. on what turned out to be one of the world's richest lodes of silver, lead and zinc, forming BHP. ==Location and description==

Mount Gipps is situated about north of Broken Hill and north east of Mannahill in the outback of New South Wales. The area is arid and most water is pumped from bores, though Stephens Creek runs through the property and has semi-permanent water-holes. The property is composed of gibber plains, large areas of saltbush and mulga and sandy creek beds surrounded by coolibah trees. In the 2010s, the property was described as covering , and still operating as a sheep station but also as a farmstay for tourists. the property continues to operate as both a working sheep station and, with the neighbouring Wendalpa Station, covers around and is known as the Mt Gipps Station Stay. The old station homestead is now the site of the Broken Hill Royal Flying Doctor Service. ==See also==