Marrilla Station, often referred to as Marrilla, 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 north 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

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

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. Marrilla occupies an area of and shares boundaries with

Giralia Giralia Station, often referred to as Giralia, is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station. It is located about south of Exmouth and north of Carnarvon in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The homestead is about from th ...

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 ...

, Nyang, Winning, Bullara and Cardabia Stations. The station is composed of two blocks, one on the eastern side and one to the west meeting at a single point in the middle. The eastern portion is made up of sand dunes and sandy plains, the western block is made up of low hills and plains that support spinifex and bluebush. The property is capable of supporting flock of 13,100 sheep in a good season. In 1934 the property was owned by the Marilla Station Company, a partnership between Amedio Ferdinand Marchetti and Hercules Carl Lingstone. The partnership was dissolved in 1934 with Lingstone retaining ownership of the property. Marrilla was placed up for auction in 1935; it was advertised as having an area of and was stocked with 12,000 sheep. It had been broken in ten paddocks with of fencing and was watered by seven windmills. In 1953 Marrilla was on the market again, along with the Tanda lease; together they occupied an area of and were stocked with 4,000 sheep. A

bushfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identif ...

started at Marrilla in 2011 and burned toward

Station. A bushfire alert saying the fire threatened lives and properties was issued. It was contained three days later after burning through a total area of .

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

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