Kadji Kadji Station, commonly referred to as Kadji Kadji, 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
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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 ...
in
Western Australia
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. Originally covering when founded, the station was resumed to roughly .
Location
It is situated about east of
Morawa and south of
Yalgoo in the
Murchison River area of the
Mid-West
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region.
Etymology
The property has also been known as Cadgee, Old Cadgee and in the 1890s was known as Cogy Cogy Station. The word ''kadji'' is
Aboriginal
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*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
*One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
in origin and is the word for a "
shaman
Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritu ...
". The word literally means ''clever man'' or ''clever woman''.
Doubling the name makes it plural, so the name ''Kadji Kadji'' applied to a place name, would mean "place of many clever men/women".
History
Kadji Kadji was established in the 1870s when Messrs Pell, Fane and Waldeck took up the lease with an area of approximately . It was later sold to Sam Moore in 1889.
The property was part owned by
Septimus Burt
The Hon Septimus Burt KC (25 October 1847 – 15 May 1919) was a Western Australian lawyer, politician and grazier, the son of Sir Archibald Burt.
He was born on 25 October 1847 at St Kitts in the West Indies, and educated at a private school ...
during the 1890s,
[ and was struck by ]drought
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in 1900. Kadji Kadji was later was managed by Burt's son, Archibald, at the time of his death in 1919.wheat
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farming by 1923 when large area were burnt off in readiness for planting.
Burgess was injured on Kadji in 1929; he suffered severe head injuries after an accident while tent-pegging
Tent pegging (sometimes spelled tent-pegging or tentpegging) is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation. Used narrowly, the term refers to ...
. By 1930 further lands were resumed from Kadji Kadji so that Burt had to sell off nearly 5,000 sheep. The area of land resumed was between to .
Later the same year Burt put the property up for auction along with the remaining 5,000 head of sheep.
See also
* List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
* SO ...
* List of reduplicated Australian place names
These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" ''many cr ...
References
{{Stations of the Mid West Western Australia
Stations in the Mid West (Western Australia)