Giralia Station, often referred to as Giralia, is a pastoral lease that operates as a

sheep station A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...

. It is located about south of

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and north of Carnarvon 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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. The homestead is about from the

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. The property shares boundaries with Marrilla, Bullara, and

Yanrey Yanrey Station, often referred to as Yanrey, is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station. It is located about south east of Exmouth and south of Onslow in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Yanrey occupies an area of and s ...

Stations; it also has frontage onto

Exmouth Gulf Exmouth Gulf is a gulf in the north-west of Western Australia. It lies between North West Cape and the main coastline of Western Australia. It is considered to be part of the Pilbara Coast and Northwest Shelf, and the Carnarvon Basin geologi ...

. The property occupies an area of , of which about half is sand plains and the rest made up of dunes, limestone plains and stony plains, all of which are suitable for grazing. The station was originally established in 1888; the lease encompassed an area of and was taken up by the H. R. Frencry and Company. Construction of a

homestead Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses *Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *Homestead principle, a legal concept th ...

commenced in 1910, and it was extended to its present size in 1916. By 1930 the property was carrying a flock of 44,000 sheep and produced a clip of 700 bales of wool during shearing. Giralia turned to tourist accommodation after being acquired by the

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in 2002 and has been managed as a national park. The Blake family remain on the property to run the tourist venue. In 2011, a massive

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that consumed an area of came to within of the homestead.

References

{{Stations of the Gascoyne Western Australia Shire of Exmouth Pastoral leases in Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) 1888 establishments in Australia

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