Balgair or Balgair Station is a pastoral lease, currently operating as a
cattle station and previously as a
sheep station. It is located about west of
Rawlinna and east of
Kambalda
Kambalda is a small mining town about from the mining city of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, within the Goldfields. It is split into two townsites apart, Kambalda East and Kambalda West; and is located on the western edge of a giant salt ...
on the
Nullarbor Plain in the
Goldfields of
Western Australia. The surface land system is described as a "deflated limestone plain" that has severe
erosion in parts.
Balgair is bordered to the south by
Arubiddy Station and also shares a border with vacant
crown land
Crown land (sometimes spelled crownland), also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown. It is the equivalent of an entailed estate and passes with the monarchy, being inseparable from it. ...
.
The property was established in the mid-1960s when three blocks east of
Rawlinna Station
Rawlinna Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about east of Kambalda in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The locality of Rawlinna and the Trans-Australian Railway are situated along the boundary of th ...
became available. Over 32 applicants wanted to settle the blocks that later became known as Balgair, Kybo and Desert Downs.
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When running sheep it has been stocked with up to 10,000 head and has a maximum carrying capacity of 17,500. It has good quality underground water with seven equipped bores and a further four unequipped bores on undeveloped areas. The property has a homestead, a four-stand shearing shed and drafting yards. The station was recently listed for sale at 2.1 million.
Since at least 2001 Balgair was owned and managed by Mark and Karen Forrester, who also operate Kanandah Station. Both properties produce certified organic beef. The area suffered from drought from 2002 to 2009, with cattle from Balgair being trucked from the property and agisted further west.]
See also
* List of ranches and stations
References
Stations in Goldfields-Esperance
Nullarbor Plain
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