Noonkanbah Station
Location in Western Australia
Noonkanbah Station (or just Noonkanbah) is a pastoral lease, both a cattle and sheep station, on the Fitzroy River between Camballin and Fitzroy Crossing in the south central Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The station was pegged out in the 1880s and covered approximately 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi). It was the subject of an infamous land-rights dispute in August 1980 when state premier Sir Charles Court enforced an oil exploration project under police protection.[1][2] The traditional owners now control around 1800 square kilometres of the land sacred to the Yungngora Community.
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- ^ Ritter, David (2002). "The Fulcrum of Noonkanbah". API Network. Retrieved 3 July 2014.