Jimba Jimba Station, most often referred to as Jimba Jimba, is a
pastoral lease
A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to Pastoral farming, graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands.
Austral ...
currently operating as a
cattle station
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in
Western Australia
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, that once operated 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 property is situated near
Gascoyne Junction, approximately east of
Carnarvon and north of
Kalbarri. The property has double frontage to an approximately length of the
Gascoyne River
The Gascoyne River is a river in the Gascoyne (Western Australia), Gascoyne region of Western Australia. At , it is the longest river in Western Australia.
Description
The Gascoyne River comprises three branches in its upper reaches. Draini ...
, and backs onto the
Kennedy Range in the
Gascoyne
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region of Western Australia.
Description
The station was established in 1878
[ by G. Hamersley and S. Simms and occupied an area of .] By 1885, the station had changed hands and was owned by Samuel James Phillips
Samuel James Phillips (8 November 1855 – 21 June 1920) was an Australian pastoralist and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1890 to 1904, representing the seat of Irwin.
Phillips was born in P ...
and his brother John H. Phillips.
Jimba Jimba was severely flooded along with surrounding properties including Erivilla and Clifton Downs in 1896 following heavy rains. The Gascoyne River and many of its tributaries broke their banks resulting in loss of stock.
By 1906 Messrs S. J. Phillips and Company owned Jimba Jimba and a total of 23,000 sheep were shorn producing 290 bales of wool.
Philip Ryan managed the station until 1907, when Douglas Philips, John Phillip's son, took over management of the property.[ In 1911 the property had a good shearing season with 400 bales of wool produced. Following the deaths of John and Samuel Philips the property passed onto Douglas in 1921.][ In 1926 approximately 19,000 sheep were shorn yielding 475 bales of wool.
A team of eight shearers led by Bill Young sheared 8,205 sheep in a 38½ hour week in 1954 at Jimba Jimba.
A seven-year ]drought
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was broken in 2010 when the area received its wettest day on record. This triggered massive flooding along the Gascoyne River, with water levels up to above normal. Floodwaters almost surrounded the homestead
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*Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal ...
, with people having to be winched from rooftops by a police helicopter.
Geology
The station gave name to the Early Permian 01 or 01 may refer to:
* The year 2001, or any year ending with 01
* The month of January
* 1 (number)
Music
* '01 (Richard Müller album), ''01'' (Richard Müller album), 2001
* 01 (Urban Zakapa album), ''01'' (Urban Zakapa album), 2011
* ''01011 ...
Jimba Jimba Formation, part of the Wooramel Group. In the limestone
Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...
s of the formation, many fossil bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
s, gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
s and brachiopod
Brachiopods (), phylum (biology), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear e ...
s have been found. The crinoid
Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that remain attached to the sea floor by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are ...
'' Jimbacrinus bostocki'', found in sandstone
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s of the Cundlego Formation, was also named after the station.''Jimbacrinus''
at Fossilworks
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See also
* List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 p ...
* List of reduplicated Australian place names
These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri language, Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wag ...
References
{{Stations of the Gascoyne Western Australia
Homesteads in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia
Shire of Upper Gascoyne
Paleontology in Australia
Heritage places of Western Australia
1878 establishments in Australia