William Creek sits within Anna Creek Station, the largest cattle property in the world — over 30,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Belgium. The station operates cattle across this immense area using a combination of road trains, mustering aircraft, and horses, with William Creek serving as one of its internal waypoints.
The scale of the operation is impossible to grasp from the ground. The station manager's area of responsibility is larger than many countries. Cattle station life in the Australian outback is one of the last genuinely remote working environments on earth, with the nearest significant town (Coober Pedy) nearly 160 km away. The pub at William Creek is as close as most visitors get to understanding how the station operates, but the staff there can tell you more about the reality of life on a property this size.