Nanambinia Station is a
pastoral lease located south of
Balladonia, Western Australia
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on the
Eyre Highway
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in the
Goldfields-Esperance region.
Harry Dimer took up the lease in 1896.
[ ] The property takes its name from the
Indigenous Australian
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word for a willow-like tree that is native to the area.
A unique record of life on the station appeared in a series of letters from Nanambinia (via
Israelite Bay) to "Aunt Mary" (the "Childrens Corner") in the Western Australian weekly newspaper the
Western Mail, by the girls of the Diner family, Annie and Bertha.
Nanambinia occupied an area in excess of in 1934, and the Dimer family were running 600 head of cattle as well as
merino
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and
Shropshire sheep that produced 50
bales
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annually. The family had added over of fencing and dug 25 dams for watering the stock.
[
The Dimer family were long associated with the lease.
The Dimers had bred sheep, cattle, horses, camels and donkeys on the station.
In 1950 only 700 sheep were to be sheared and the property was being run by Fred Dimer.][ ]
See also
* Noondoonia Station
*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
* S ...
*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 ...
Notes
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Homesteads in Western Australia
Stations in Goldfields-Esperance
1896 establishments in Australia