Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port Jackson, in the colony of New South Wales. Little ...
The Wellington project, situated on 320 hectares of grazed agricultural land about 50 km southeast of the city of Dubbo, has been home to a flock of about 1,700 Merino sheep over the past three years.