To get to Macumba, you first have to drive 1042km northwest from Adelaide to the tiny Outback town of Oodnadatta. From there, a lonely bush track leads the final 41km to the station homestead.

To get to Macumba, you first have to drive 1042km northwest from Adelaide to the tiny Outback town of Oodnadatta. From there, a lonely bush track leads the final 41km to the station homestead.

IT’S the biggest land sale ever held in Australia, a vast cattle empire created by Outback legend Sir Sidney Kidman. Nigel Austin drove 1000km to find what makes it special. See the gallery ...

The company built by ‘Cattle King’ Sidney Kidman is for sale. ... Multi-racial communities survived at Macumba until the late 1950s and at Anna Creek till 1979.

Sidney Kidman was born in Adelaide but ran away from home aged thirteen. He found work as a cattle driver in the outback. By 1903 Kidman owned or was a part owner of 98,420 square kilometres of ...