Anna Plains Station
Anna Plains Station is a cattle station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Location
The station is situated on the Western Australian coast 250 kilometres (155 mi) south of
Ecology
The property adjoins
History
The
In 1903 the station was owned by the partners, Percy and Felde, who went to court over selling the station in 1905.[4]
The
Mr F. S. McMullen was the station owner in 1933. He petitioned the minister of agriculture to dispose of 10,000 head of cattle with a view to changing over to sheep. The request was made as the owner was unable to move his stock north through country infested with
The station was subject to heavy rains in 1934 with 9 inches (229 mm) of rain falling during the course of a storm, leaving the country under water for hundreds of miles. A passenger aeroplane flying from
In 1935 a
Following a cyclone in 1936, the station manager found the carcasses of 7 mules, 49 horses and 102 head of cattle that had been swept into the sea and drowned.[11] During the storm it was estimated that 3.5 inches (89 mm) of rain fell; damage included several windmills being blown over and a part of the homestead being destroyed.[12]
A drought in 1945 left the cattle in very bad condition, with many dying.[13]
1,100 head of cattle were taken overland from the station to the railway at Meekatharra in 1948 by the drover Georg Solvay.[14]
1,200 head of cattle from the station were loaded at Eighty Mile Beach in 1954 onto the LST landing craft Wan Kuo in the first shipment of its kind from Western Australia. The cattle were penned in batches of 15 along with about 10 tons of feed in readiness to be shipped to Manila.[15]
In 1959 the Talgarno village was built on land excised from the station. Talgarno was a British government project to test the accuracy of
A number of Indigenous people, including artist Big John Dodo and his wife Rosie Munroe, were evicted from Anna Plains in the 1960s following a change in the station's management.[17]
On 1 February 1978,
In 2010 the station was leased by the Anna Plains Cattle Company Pty Ltd. under the management of John Stoate.
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Anna Plains Cattle Co.
- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Mandora Marsh and Anna Plains. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 2013-05-07. on 10 August 2011
- ^ "Ausanthrop – Australian Aboriginal tribal database". 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ "Nor'-West Partners". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 11 May 1905. p. 4 Edition: Third Edition. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "MacRobertson Expedition". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 14 June 1928. p. 7. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Stock restrictions". Western Mail (Western Australia). Perth: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1933. p. 32. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Aeroplanes Inconvenienced". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 2 April 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "The Pastoralist". The Western Mail. Perth: National Library of Australia. 6 September 1934. p. 50. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "On the land". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 18 May 1934. p. 14. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Murdered by natives". Western Argus. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 26 November 1935. p. 17. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Livestock swept into sea". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 31 January 1936. p. 1. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Devastation at Anna Plains". The Northern Times. Carnarvon, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 January 1936. p. 3. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Heavy rain at Broome". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 2 February 1945. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Bamboo Springs Clip". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 26 July 1948. p. 14 Edition: 2nd Edition. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "L.S.T. Cattle Shipment: Loading Starts". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 31 July 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "ABC News – Blue Streak rocket program". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
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- ^ Tropical Cyclone Vern 27/01/1978 to 03/02/1978 (PDF) (Report). Melbourne, Victoria: Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
Sources
- "Anna Plains Cattle Co". Merelle DuVé. ATNS. 9 March 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2010.