Kirkalocka

Kirkalocka Station

Location in Western Australia

Coordinates: 28°33′24″S 117°46′48″E / 28.55663°S 117.77996°E / -28.55663; 117.77996 (Kirkalocka Station)

Banksia rosserae plants on Kirkalocka

Kirkalocka is a sheep station in Western Australia. It is located 55 kilometres (35  mi) south-south-west of Mount Magnet, 420 kilometres (260 mi) north east of Perth. The station covers approximately 100 square kilometres (25,000 acres) of leasehold land.

In addition to being an operating sheep station, Kirkalocka offers caravan stop-over facilities and accommodation in shearers' quarters.

In 2000, three previously undescribed species of shrub were collected on the station, and subsequently published as Banksia rosserae, Grevillea squiresae and Grevillea kirkalocka. The last of these is named after Kirkalocka.

The current lesses are Geoffery and Elizabeth Pilkington, Kirkalocka is operating under the Crown Lease number CL440-1966 and has the Land Act number LA3114/636.

See also

• Kirkalocka Gold Mine

References

• Olde, Peter M. and Marriott, Neil R. (2002). "One new Banksia and two new Grevillea species (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae) from Western Australia". Nuytsia 15 (1): 85–99. 
• Kirkalocka in the Gazetteer of Australia online