Further to Ludwig Leichhardt... it may be confusing to locals to read, even in recent publications, and on an information board in the Queensland Museum, that Leichhardt departed from Cogoon Station, never to be heard of again.

Now, Cogoon Station was not established until the 1850s, while Leichhardt went AWOL in 1848.  The error seems to have originated from reading of a letter written on 3rd April 1848, despatched from Mt. Abundance to Captain P.P.King; that letter was headed as being written at "Mr. Macpherson's Station, Cogoon."  Leichhardt would have known, from Mitchell's map that the creek we now know as the Muckadilla was regarded as being the Cogoon River; possibly, on the 3rd April he was not aware that MacPherson named his Run as Mount Abundance.  It was on that day that he actually arrived at Mount Abundance.

However, a letter written the very next day to the Sydney Morning Herald is headed "Sheep station at Mount Abundance,".  Presumably Leichhardt had in that brief period met up with one of MacPherson's men, as obviously there was no postal facility from which to despatch his correspondence.

That sheep station was between the Muckadilla Creek and the northern end of the mountain, as verified by an 1854 sketch map made by William Macpherson, and located by this writer in Scotland.

On that map, the location is identified as an "old sheep station", because when Allan Macpherson left the Run to return to Scotland in 1849, he withdrew all his sheep, as they and their shepherds had become easy prey to the local Aborigines.  He left his cattle, and sufficient men to care for them, in order to retain possession of the land.