Globe Hill Station is a defunct pastoral lease that was once 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 ...

and a

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. It is situated approximately south of Onslow and east of

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in the

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region. The property shared a boundary with Minderoo and

Nanutarra Station Nanutarra Station, commonly referred to as Nanutarra, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station, and previously operated as a sheep station, in Western Australia. Description It is situated about south of Onslow and south east o ...

. The

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of the area are the

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peoples, who know the area as ''Wurrumarlu'' or the Globe Hill country. The property was established at some time prior to 1883, and was trading wool in that year. George McRae and another man named Harper owned the property in 1884 and it had been substantially improved with wells, pumps and a wool shed having all been built, and was stocked with 14,000 sheep. In 1907 the property was still running sheep and was owned by McRae.

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and Thomas Frederick de Pledge acquired the station in 1909 for £35,000. Globe Hill was incorporated into Yanrey Station by De Pledge. At one stage Yanrey was the third largest property in the Ashburton District, with a size of . The properties had a combined flock of approximately 80,000 sheep in 1909 with 10,000 being lost during a storm. The area was later struck by a

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which broke in early 1913.

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{{Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia Pastoral leases in Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) Homesteads in Western Australia Pilbara

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