Yarrabubba Station, often referred to as Yarrabubba, is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a
cattle station but has previously operated as a
sheep station.
It is located about south east of
Meekatharra and north east of
Cue in the
Mid West
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. I ...
region of
Western Australia. Yarrabubba shares a boundary with
Cogla Downs Station. The
Yarrabubba crater
The Yarrabubba impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater, situated in the northern Yilgarn Craton near Yarrabubba Station between the towns of Sandstone and Meekatharra, Mid West Western Australia.Macdonald F.A., Bunting J.A. & ...
, which takes its name from the property, is found on the margins of the station.
[Macdonald F.A., Bunting J.A. & Cina S.E. 2003. Yarrabubba—a large, deeply eroded impact structure in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 213, 235–247]
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The property was advertised for sale in 1906. At this time it occupied an area of and was stocked with 100 head of cattle. Yarrabubba was equipped with five windmills and 30 wells and divided into two paddocks.
The Nairn brothers, pastoralists from Carnamah, purchased Yarrabubba in 1908.
Sheep were being run at Yarrabubba in 1910 with the station producing wool for the London market. The station had an 8-stand shearing shed and during shearing in 1912 about 6,000 sheep were put over the boards. By 1915 an estimated 9,000 sheep were grazing at Yarrabubba, with the flock increasing to about 13,000 in 1916.
In 1925 the Nairns acquired Leinster Downs Station in the northern Goldfields and stocked it with sheep from Yarrabubba. Shearing at Yarrabubba in 1928 produced a total of 255 bales of wool from a flock of 15,300 sheep.
In 2010 the Howden family owned Yarrabubba.
See also
* List of ranches and stations
References
{{Stations of the Mid West Western Australia
Stations in the Mid West (Western Australia)