Yarrabubba

Yarrabubba Station, often referred to as Yarrabubba, is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station but has previously operated as a sheep station.

For the impact crater, see Yarrabubba crater.

Yarrabubba
Location in Western Australia

It is located about 66 kilometres (41 mi) south east of Meekatharra and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north east of Cue in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Yarrabubba shares a boundary with Cogla Downs Station.[1] The Yarrabubba crater, which takes its name from the property, is found on the margins of the station.[2]

The property was advertised for sale in 1906. At this time it occupied an area of 294,000 acres (118,978 ha) and was stocked with 100 head of cattle. Yarrabubba was equipped with five windmills and 30 wells and divided into two paddocks.[3] The Nairn brothers, pastoralists from Carnamah, purchased Yarrabubba in 1908.[4]

Sheep were being run at Yarrabubba in 1910 with the station producing wool for the London market.[5] The station had an 8-stand shearing shed and during shearing in 1912 about 6,000 sheep were put over the boards.[6] By 1915 an estimated 9,000 sheep were grazing at Yarrabubba,[7] with the flock increasing to about 13,000 in 1916.[8]

In 1925 the Nairns acquired Leinster Downs Station in the northern Goldfields and stocked it with sheep from Yarrabubba.[9] Shearing at Yarrabubba in 1928 produced a total of 255 bales of wool from a flock of 15,300 sheep.[10]

In 2010 the Howden family owned Yarrabubba.[11] They also owned neighbouring Murchison Downs, which was running 100 cattle in 2009 along with another 300 on Yarrabubba.

See also

References
  1. "Advertising". Sunday Times. Perth: National Library of Australia. 18 July 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  2. Macdonald F.A., Bunting J.A. & Cina S.E. 2003. Yarrabubba—a large, deeply eroded impact structure in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 213, 235–247. Abstract
  3. "Advertising". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 11 December 1906. p. 10. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  4. "Carnamah – History". Carnamah Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  5. "Finance and Commerce". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 27 January 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  6. "Shearing dates". Western Mail. Perth: National Library of Australia. 13 July 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  7. "Shearing Dates". Sunday Times. Perth: National Library of Australia. 14 March 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  8. "Shearing fixtures for 1916". Sunday Times. Perth: National Library of Australia. 26 March 1916. p. 4 Section: Second Section. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  9. "Sheep-raising". Western Argus. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 18 August 1925. p. 9. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  10. "Murchison Shearing". Geraldton Guardian. Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 15 September 1928. p. 3. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  11. "Shire Staff" (PDF). Meekatharra Dust. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
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