Mundabullangana, Western Australia

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Mundabullangana Station
Location in Western Australia

Mundabullangana is a settlement in Western Australia, located approximately 100 km south-west of Port Hedland. It is the site of a 225,000 hectare cattle station.[1][2] Mundabullangana is more commonly known as Munda Station.

In 1872, brothers Roderick Mckay and Donald Mcdonald Mackay and Donald's son, Samuel Peter Mackay,[3] took up a tract of country on the Yule River, where there was a good pool of permanent water, bearing the Aboriginal name Mundabullangana. Although for most of its history Mundabullanganna was predominantly a sheep station, in 1985 it was destocked in favour of cattle.[4]

The station originally occupied an area of 1,000,000 acres (4,047 km2) and by 1903, following the death of his father, Samuel Mackay became the sole owner of the station.[3]

Mundabullangana Station is significant in the occupation of the North-West of Western Australia as the first pastoral lease taken up by European settlers in the Yule and Turner River areas, in the 1870s. It became one of the largest and most successful enterprises of its kind in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its pastoral use continued through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century.[4]

The homestead at Mundabullangana Station is a good example of Victorian Georgian style architecture. On 2 March 1984, Mundabullangana homestead was entered on the Register of the National Estate. The nomination lapsed, and it was removed from the Register on 14 May 1991.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Case Study Mundabullangana Station". RISE Information Portal. School of Engineering and Energy, Murdoch University. Retrieved 19 June 2012. 
  2. ↑ Cole, Anna; Haskins, Victoria K. (Victoria Katharine), 1967-; Paisley, Fiona; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2005), Uncommon ground : white women in Aboriginal history (New ed ed.), Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, ISBN 978-0-85575-485-3  p. 246
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mackay, Samuel Peter (1864–1923)". Obituaries Australia. Australian National University. 16 June 1923. Retrieved 15 December 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Mundabullangana Station" (pdf). Register of Heritage Places - Assessment Documentation. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2012. 

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