Elderslie Station, also known as Elderslie, is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep and cattle station in Queensland, Australia.
Station team at work on Elderslie]
Collingwood is a former town in the Channel Country in Central West Queensland, Australia, in the Shire of Winton. Collingwood was founded in the 1870s, and it was hoped that the town would thrive and grow into a regional centre that would foster the development of pastoral activity in the Diamantina region, an industry of great local importance to this day. However, Collingwood ultimately failed as a town and was given up after only about two decades of existence.
A dry-looking Collingwood area in December 2008 demonstrates, when seen next to the following image, seasonal changes in surface water.
Only two months later, in February 2009, the Collingwood area seems a bit wetter and, consequently, lusher. This flooding happened towards the end of a drought.
Flooding in January 2010 greened the land, especially near the rivers. This colouring, however, is exaggerated somewhat by NASA's use of both visible and infrared light in all three images.
John McKinlay