Kirkalocka
28°33′24′′S 117°46′48′′E / 28.55663°S 117.77996°E / -28.55663; 117.77996 (Kirkalocka Station)
Kirkalocka is a former sheep station in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Location
[edit ]It is located 55 kilometres (35 mi) south-south-west of Mount Magnet, 420 kilometres (260 mi) north east of Perth. The station covers approximately 100 square kilometres (25,000 acres) of leasehold land.
History
[edit ]A road was cleared from Mount Magnet to Kirkalocka Station in 1911.[1]
At a meeting of the Mt Magnet Pastoralists subcommittee in 1944 at Kirkalocka they were given a demonstration of mulesing and the docking of lambs tails to prevent fly strike.[2] In 1949 Grazier Fred Broad recommend the Manchester method in preference to mulesing, having used it for 3 years on 1200 ewes at Kirkalocka with a 99% success rate and attributing the 1% failure to poor workmanship.[3] [4]
Kirkalocka is now predominantly a tourism based operation and offers caravan stop-over facilities and accommodation in shearers' quarters and the old homestead.
In 2000, three previously undescribed species of shrub were collected on the station, and subsequently published as Banksia rosserae , Grevillea squiresiae and Grevillea kirkalocka . The last of these is named after Kirkalocka.
Due to proximity to mining areas, the station area was reviewed for its geological potential in 2000.[5]
Badimaya elder Ollie George grew up on the station.[6]
A dictionary preserving the Badimaya language was unveiled at Kirkalocka station in 2014.[7]
The current lessees are Jared and Blair Ridley; Kirkalocka is operating under the Crown Lease number CL440-1966 and has the Land Act number LA3114/636.
See also
[edit ]Notes
[edit ]- ^ "Payne's Find". The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette. 15 August 1911. p. 3.
- ^ "Pastoral Notes". Daily Telegraph And North Murchison And Pilbarra Gazette . Western Australia. 13 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Manchester Method Praised By Grazier". The Farmer and Settler . Vol. XLIII, no. 51. New South Wales, Australia. 21 January 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "PREVENTION OF BLOWFLY STRIKE". Quorn Mercury . South Australia. 24 February 1949. p. 3. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Mai, Gao; Kojan, C; Western Australia (2000), The geology and mineral potential of the unallocated crown land-Kirkalocka Station area, Dept. of Minerals & Energy, Land Access Branch, retrieved 21 October 2019
- ^ Film and Television Institute (W.A.) (2014), Indigenous Community Stories : Ollie George / produced by Taryne Laffar, Film and Television Institute (WA) Inc. and Screenwest, retrieved 21 October 2019
- ^ Taillier, Sarah (11 April 2014). "Aboriginal language dictionary for Badimaya people launched at Mount Magnet". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
References
[edit ]- Olde, Peter M.; Marriott, Neil R. (2002). "One new Banksia and two new Grevillea species (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae) from Western Australia". Nuytsia. 15 (1): 85–99.
- Kirkalocka in the Gazetteer of Australia online
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