Middalya 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

. It was located south east of Coral Bay and north east of Denham 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. The Minilya River runs through the property. The

traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights ...

of the area are the

Tharrkari The Tharrkari, also referred to as the Targari, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Language The Tharrkari spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the dialect continuum being t ...

people, who currently lease and manage Ullawarra station. The rangeland occupies an area of , approximately of which is described as being in good or fair condition. It is able to be stocked with 19,350 sheep, with a flock of 15,200 being recommended. It is composed of sandplains, alluvial and stony plains and hills. In 1887 the property was stocked with 6,000 sheep, which produced 87 bales of wool; by 1890 the flock had increased to 16,000 producing 220 bales. J. H. Mansfield, who had previously managed Karratha Station and later owned

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

Station, was managing Middalya in the 1880s. Douglas John Hearman acquired Middalya at some time prior to 1897. Middalya was placed on the market in 1902, at which time it occupied an area of and was stocked with 18,000 sheep, 40 cattle and 80 horses. In 1907 the property was hit by a severe storm and recorded of rain in a short period of time. The homestead was damaged by strong winds and several windmills were blown over. During the

shearing Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a '' shearer''. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or ...

season of 1918 a total of 15,500 sheep, including 3,000 lambs, were shorn, producing a total of 300 bales of wool. A flock of 15,936 sheep and 5,208 lambs were shorn in 1923 producing 525 bales of wool.

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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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