Emu Creek or Emu Creek Station is a pastoral lease and
cattle station located approximately east of
Coral Bay and south east of
Exmouth
Exmouth is a harbor, port town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and seaside resort, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe and southeast of Exeter.
In 2011 it had a population of 34,432, making Exmouth the List of town ...
in the
Pilbara region of
Western Australia.
The station occupies an area of and has a carrying capacity of 1,590 head of cattle.
The property was established in 1891 and occupied an area of almost . Initially sheep were run at Emu Creek and some 20,000 were pastured and
shorn
Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a '' shearer''. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or ...
in the early years.
The station also runs a
Bureau of Meteorology weather station, which in 2014 recorded 67 days with temperatures over .
See also
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List of ranches and stations
*
List of extreme temperatures in Australia
The highest temperature ever recorded in Australia is , which was recorded on 2 January 1960 at Oodnadatta, South Australia and 13 January 2022 at Onslow, Western Australia. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia is , at Charlotte Pa ...
References
{{Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pilbara
Stations (Australian agriculture)
1891 establishments in Australia