Cardabia

Cardabia is located in Western Australia
Cardabia
Cardabia
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Location in Western Australia

23°06′14″S 113°48′14″E / 23.104°S 113.804°E / -23.104; 113.804 (Cardabia) Cardabia Station, commonly referred to as Carbabia, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

It is situated about 6 kilometres (4 mi) north east of Coral Bay and 133 kilometres (83 mi) south of Exmouth. Warroora Station is on Carbadia's southern boundary.[1]

Cardabia is currently owned by the Indigenous Land Corporation, who acquired the 2,000-square-kilometre (772 sq mi) property in 1997. The Indigenous Land Corporation divested to the Baiyangu Aboriginal Corporation in 1998; the latter operate the property, including providing training opportunities to the traditional owners of the area.[2]

The earliest recorded lease in the area was for 20,000 acres (8,094 ha), taken up by the Quailborough Squatting Company on New Year's Day in 1880.[1]

The Cardabia and Lyndon runs, with a total area of 428,000 acres (173,205 ha), were put up for sale in 1884; both were unstocked at the time.[3]

By 1913 approximately 16,000 sheep were shorn, producing 330 bales of wool.[4]

The area was struck by drought, with only 2 inches (51 mm) of rain falling through a 13-month period from mid-1918 to late 1919.[5]

In 2015 the station owners had to renegotiate the lease agreement with the state government, including having the government excise sections of pastoral land along the world-heritage listed Ningaloo Coast from the property, for conservation and tourism ventures.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Waroora People". Warroora. 2013. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Indigenous Land Corporation – Cardabia Station". Australian Government. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Advertising". The Daily News. Perth. 9 May 1884. p. 2. Retrieved 18 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Gascoyne". The Northern Times. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 22 November 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 19 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Cardabia". The Northern Times. Carnarvon, Western Australia. 13 September 1919. p. 5. Retrieved 18 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Lucie Bell (29 May 2015). "Five weeks and counting: Negotiations ongoing as Western Australia's pastoral lease rollover approaches". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 December 2015.