Manangoora Station is a pastoral lease over an area of 550 square miles where the descendants of Norwegian immigrant Andre (Andy) Anderson and his wife Alice Yumbara, a Garrawa woman have run a cattle station since the 1920’s.
Stephen Anderson, his brothers Robert & Bill and his cousins all work the cattle station together with each of them allocated part of the 550 square miles to work and generate income from the pastoral lease.

Stephen’s grandfather, Andre (Andy )Anderson was a cadet on Norwegian fleet who left his ship on Australian shores and ended up in Borroloola. He teamed up with Bill Harney at Lawn Hill & went to Burketown where they signed up for Light Horsemen & went overseas to fight for Australia in World War one. Andy was an ANZAC who got Australian citizenship when he returned to Australia after the war. Bill Harney had a salt lease on Manangoora Station and the salt mine supplied salt to ships & cattle stations in the Barkley Table lands. Andy took over the lease of the saltpans and the grazing licence from Bill Harney. These were passed down to his two boys Lenin & Alex. Lenin is Stephen’s father and Stephanie’s grandfather.

Stephen and his duaghter Stephanie Manage Manangoora Tourism