Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease within the Edjudina Land District of

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

, that operates as a

sheep station A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...

. The station is approximately to the south of Laverton and north east of

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...

in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The leasehold shares a boundary with

Yundamindera Station Yundamindera Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about north of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is situated next to the Mount Remarkable sheep station and Mount Celia Station. Dr Lav ...

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

traditional owners Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs. These Aboriginal title rig ...

of the area are the Wongatha and Maduwongga peoples. 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. Newland sold Edjudina in 1921, at which time it occupied an area of . It was acquired by the Wilkie brothers at a "highly satisfactory price". 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. The property was stocked with 7,000 sheep and 1,200 cattle at the time. By 1934 the station was stocked with about 25,000 sheep and was still owned by E. W. Hawker and sons. In 1948 the station was stocked with 12,500 sheep. The owner in 1952 was J. Maund; the property had an area of about and was stocked with a flock of about 16,000 sheep. In 2012 the property received of rain in 24 hours, its highest rainfall in 11 years, when the remnants of

Cyclone Lua Severe Tropical Cyclone Lua affected a sparsely populated region of Western Australia during mid-March 2012. Originating in a broad low pressure area that formed northwest of Australia by 8 March, the storm was plagued by inhibiting wind shear ...

passed over the area.

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{{Stations of the Goldfields-Esperance Western Australia Homesteads in Western Australia Stations in Goldfields–Esperance

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