De Grey Station

De Grey Station

Coordinates: 20°10′32″S 119°11′29″E / 20.17556°S 119.19139°E / -20.17556; 119.19139 De Grey Station [1] is a pastoral lease formerly a sheep station and now a cattle station approx 80 kilometres to the east of Port Hedland on the mouth of the De Grey River in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.

Pardoo Station was established as an outstation of De Grey in 1869 and has a size of over 200,000 hectares. Sheep, breeding mares and camels. Prdoo now runs 6,000 head of cattle.[2]

The station was visited by MacRobertson's party twice during the Round Australia Expedition in 1928, once on the way to Port Hedland and then on the journey to Broome. At this time the manager of the station was Mr John Stewart and 30,000 sheep were being run on the property. The party stayed in the brick homestead, outbuildings and shearing shed during their visit.[3]

Atlas Iron Limited began mining and shipping Iron Ore from the Pardoo minesite in 2008 which takes up an area of 278ha on the station and is situated approximately 10km South from the station homestead.[4]

Mark Bettini, the station manager at De Grey in 2006, re-established the native Mitchell Grass in preference to the introduced Buffel grass in order to combat the spread of Parkinsonia in tthe area. He reported that mitchell grass grows better in clay areas and is just as nutritious to cattle.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ *"De Grey Homestead". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government. http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=266393. 
  2. ^ "The West Australian -Home on the range". 2011-06-17. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/wa/9164708/home-on-the-range/. 
  3. ^ "MacRobertsons Round Australia Expedition". 2011-06-17. http://210.15.209.254/RAE/degrey.html. 
  4. ^ "Appendix B - Pardoo DSO Project - EPBC Act Referral". 2011-06-17. http://www.atlasiron.com.au/IRM/Company/ShowPage.aspx?CPID=1291. 
  5. ^ "ABC Rural - Getting a hold on 'Parky' in the Pilbara". 2011-06-17. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/wa/content/2006/s1577980.htm. 

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