Fish River Station is a protected area approximately south of Daly River and south of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.

It is bounded to the north and the east by the Daly River, to the west by the Wingate Mountains, and to the south by Dorisvale and Florina Stations.

Fish River Station

The property was acquired in 2011 by the Indigenous Land Corporation in conjunction with the Nature Conservancy, Pew Environmental Group and the Australian Government's National Reserve System for 13 million. The property was sold to the group by prominent Melbourne barrister Alan Myers.

Fish River Station

The property encompasses lengths of the Daly River floodplain containing many billabongs and surrounded by pockets of rainforest, rugged ranges and fringed by savannah woodland.

Fish River Station

The traditional owners of the area are the Wagiman, Labarganyan, Malak Malak and Kamu peoples. In 2011 after the property was acquired by the Indigenous Land Corporation the management was handed back to the traditional owners.

See also

Protected areas of the Northern Territory

List of ranches and stations

References

Nature reserves in the Northern Territory

Australian Wildlife Conservancy reserves

2010 establishments in Australia

Stations in the Northern Territory