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Mount Keith Station 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 Pastoral lease ...
in Western Australia. It is located approximately north of
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and south of Wiluna. The station is named after nearby Mount Keith, which was named after
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by the explorer David Lindsay during the 1891 Elder expedition though the area. Mining leases became available in the area in 1895 following an expansion in the Murchison goldfields. In 1928 the property occupied an area of and was owned by a syndicate whose principal figure was H. E. Vail, who also owned the Wiluna gold mine. The property stocked with 4,400 sheep was sold by Robert Oldham in 1950 to John Jones of Boogardie Station.


See also

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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 ...
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List of pastoral leases in Western Australia Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 p ...


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{{Stations of the Mid West Western Australia Mid West (Western Australia) Pastoral leases in Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture)