Cardabia Station, commonly referred to as Carbabia, is a

pastoral lease A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands. Australia Pastoral lease ...

that operates as a cattle station in the

Gascoyne The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Gasc ...

region of

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. It is situated about north east of Coral Bay and south of

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. Warroora Station is on Carbadia's southern boundary. Cardabia is currently owned by the

Indigenous Land Corporation The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) is an Australian federal government statutory authority with national responsibilities to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to acquire land and to manage assets to achieve cultural ...

, who acquired the property in 1997. The Indigenous Land Corporation divested to the Baiyangu Aboriginal Corporation in 1998; the latter operate the property, including providing training opportunities to the

traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights ...

of the area. The earliest recorded lease in the area was for , taken up by the Quailborough Squatting Company on New Year's Day in 1880. The Cardabia and Lyndon runs, with a total area of , were put up for sale in 1884; both were unstocked at the time. By 1913 approximately 16,000 sheep were shorn, producing 330 bales of wool. The area was struck by drought, with only of rain falling through a 13-month period from mid-1918 to late 1919. In 2015 the station owners had to renegotiate the lease agreement with the state government, including having the government excise sections of pastoral land along the world-heritage listed

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from the property, for conservation and tourism ventures.

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{{Stations of the Gascoyne Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) Pastoral leases in Western Australia Shire of Carnarvon

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