Callawa Station is a pastoral lease that was once a
sheep station but now operates as a
cattle station in
Western Australia.
It is located approximately north east of
Marble Bar and east of
Port Hedland on the
De Grey River in the
Pilbara region of Western Australia. The property lies between
Yarrie Station
Yarrie or Yarrie Station is a pastoral lease and cattle station that once operated as a sheep station, located approximately north east of Marble Bar and south east of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The De Grey River ...
and
Shay Gap
Shay Gap was an iron ore mining town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, north-northeast of Perth and east of Port Hedland. Shay Gap was formally gazetted as a town in 1972.
Shay Gap was named after a pass of the same name in the hil ...
. The station is the western terminus of the
Gary Junction Road
The Gary Junction Road is an outback unsealed road in Australia built by Len Beadell in the 1960s as part of a network of roads for the Weapons Research Establishment at Woomera, South Australia. In its original form, the Gary Junction Road ran ...
that runs west from Liebig Hill. The property shares a boundary with Devahl Station.
The station was established at some time prior to 1909.
The Darlington family were owners of the property for a long period of time, from at least 1923 until 1952.
The station is currently one of the Strelley properties, five pastoral leases held by
Indigenous Australian groups including the Strelley Pastoral Company. Other properties in the group are
Carlindi Station, Strelley and
Lalla Rookh Station.
See also
*
List of ranches and stations
*
List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
References
{{Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia
Stations (Australian agriculture)
Homesteads in Western Australia
Pilbara