Noondoonia station is a
pastoral lease located north of
Balladonia, Western Australia
Balladonia is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia. It is the first stop east of Norseman on the journey east across the Nullarbor Plain. Between Balladonia and Caiguna is a stretch of the highway whi ...
on the
Eyre Highway
Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It ...
in the
Goldfields-Esperance region. It is adjacent to Balladonia Station.
It was established in 1883 by John Cook. Cook originally selected of land which later acted as the home station. Additional plots were added and the property occupied in 1933.
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The Cook family were long associated with the station, originally focusing on cattle and later sheep.
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Life in the isolated station was not without hardships, and in particular ]wild dogs
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See also
*Nanambinia Station
Nanambinia Station is a pastoral lease located south of Balladonia, Western Australia on the Eyre Highway in the Goldfields-Esperance region.
Harry Dimer took up the lease in 1896. The property takes its name from the Indigenous Australian w ...
*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
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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 ...
Notes
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Homesteads in Western Australia
Stations in Goldfields-Esperance
Eyre Highway