Boonderoo Explained

-31.159°N 124.361°W

Boonderoo Station, often referred to as Boonderoo, is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station.

It is located about 268km (167miles) east of Kambalda and 287km (178miles) north east of Norseman on the western edge of the Nullarbor plain in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The ephemeral lake, Lake Boonderoo, from which the property takes its name is situated within the station boundary.

Boonderoo occupies an area of 3144km2 and consists mostly of deflated limestone plain with open bluebush and saltbush scrubland along with bindii grasslands and has a carrying capacity of 23,457 sheep.[1]

The property was established in the early 1960s by the McGregor family who were granted three leases for a total area of 1000000acres in the area. The three leases were for Boonderoo, Kanandah and Koonjarra.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Appendices Station Summaries. Government of Western Australia. 31 March 2011. 22 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120323194229/http://agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/content/lwe/rpm/techbull97_nullarbor_part8_appendices.pdf. 23 March 2012. dead.
  2. Web site: Technical Bulletin - An inventory and condition survey of the Western Australian part of the Nullarbor region. No. 97. December 2010. 20 May 2014. Department of Agriculture. https://web.archive.org/web/20120323203649/http://agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/content/lwe/rpm/techbull97_nullarbor_part1_introduction_and_revew.pdf. 23 March 2012. dead.