Sir Sidney Kidman, known as Sid Kidman and popularly named "the Cattle King", was an Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia in his lifetime.
Portrait of Sir Sidney Kidman in 1927
Sidney Kidman (right) and J. R. Chisholm in 1905
In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm, the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a grazier. The largest cattle station in the world is Anna Creek Station in South Australia, which covers an area of 23,677 square kilometres.
Cooplacurripa cattle station, New South Wales, Australia
Anna Creek main homestead
Cattle Creek outstation of Wave Hill, NT, 1962
General store, Tipperary Station, Northern Territory