Edjudina

29.814°S 122.354°E / -29.814; 122.354 (Edjudina)

Edjudina

Location in Western Australia

Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease within the Edjudina Land District of Western Australia, that operates as a sheep station. The station is approximately 130 kilometres (80 mi) to the south of Laverton and 240 kilometres (150 mi) north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The leasehold shares a boundary with Yundamindera Station.[1]

Edjudina Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd commenced operations in 1937, but closed down shortly after due to declining market conditions for gold.[2]

The traditional owners of the area are the Wongatha and Maduwongga peoples.[3]

The lease was established in 1892 by Watt Newland. It was one of the first pastoral leases in the goldfields; the property was stocked with sheep.[3] Newland sold Edjudina in 1921, at which time it occupied an area of 700,000 acres (283,280 ha). It was acquired by the Wilkie brothers at a "highly satisfactory price".[4] The Wilkies later sold to James Withnell for £21,000. The property was then acquired by the famed sheep breeder, Edward Hawker, in 1925. Hawker paid £49,000, a record price in the east Murchison.[5] The property was stocked with 7,000 sheep and 1,200 cattle at the time.[6]

By 1934 the station was stocked with about 25,000 sheep and was still owned by E. W. Hawker and sons.[1] In 1948 the station was stocked with 12,500 sheep.[7]

The owner in 1952 was J. Maund; the property had an area of about 800,000 acres (320,000 ha) and was stocked with a flock of about 16,000 sheep.[8]

In 2012 the property received 75 millimetres (3 in) of rain in 24 hours, its highest rainfall in 11 years, when the remnants of Cyclone Lua passed over the area.[9]