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The station occupies an area of about 10,117 square kilometres (3,906 sq mi) or 2.5 million acres in the remote south east of Western Australia, making it the largest sheep station in Australia. It is owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company. [1] The station is an amalgamation of the Pondana, Rawlinna and Vanesk leases. [2]
John Andrew Henry Forrest AO (born 18 November 1961), nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman ) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations .
Jumbuck Pastoral Company is an Australian company that operates numerous cattle stations and sheep stations in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. It is one of the largest landowners in Australia and the biggest wool grower. As at 2013, Jumbuck controlled over 50,000 square kilometres (19,305 sq mi ...
This is a list of the largest stations in Australia, which includes stations with an area in excess of 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi). All of the largest pastoral leases are located in the states of South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA); or in the Northern Territory (NT).
Rawlinna comes under the jurisdiction of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, despite being situated 380 km (240 mi) to the east. Australia's largest operating sheep station , Rawlinna Station , covering an area of 1,011,714 hectares (2,500,000 acres) – about the area of the Sydney conurbation – adjoins the railway line.
Minderoo was owned by the Forrest family until it was sold in 1998 by Donald Forrest [17] due to relentless drought and debt. Donald's son, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest , whose early years were spent as a jackaroo at Minderoo, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] bought the property in 2009 [ 20 ] [ 21 ] for A$ 12 million.
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The Trans-Australian proceeding from Port Pirie Junction to Port Augusta and Western Australia in 1938, soon after the Trans-Australian Railway was extended to Port Pirie In 1986 the Trans-Australian at Rawlinna, WA is bound for Port Pirie. It would be another 18 years before all mainland state capitals were connected by standard gauge tracks.