Boogardie Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Western Australia.
A pastoral lease is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where Crown land is leased by government generally for the purpose of grazing on rangelands.
A sheep station is a large property in Australia or New Zealand whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or south-west of the country. In New Zealand the Merinos are usually in the high country of the South Island. These properties may be thousands of square kilometres in size and run low stocking rates to be able to sustainably provide enough feed and water for the stock.
It is situated approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Mount Magnet and 72 km (45 mi) south west of Cue on Palmers Well Road.
Mount Magnet is one of the Mid West region’s original gold mining towns, and the longest surviving gold mining settlement in Western Australia. The prominent hill that is adjacent to the current townsite was called West Mount Magnet in 1854 by explorer Robert Austin, having named a smaller hill 64 km away, East Mount Magnet. Both hills had an extremely high iron content which affected the readings of his compass. West Mount Magnet had its Aboriginal name reinstated by the Surveyor General in 1972, 'Warramboo," meaning campfire camping place. The magnetic variation at Mount Magnet is zero: magnetic north equals true north.
Cue is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, located 620 km north-east of Perth. At the 2016 census, Cue had a population of 178. It is also known as the Queen of the Murchison. Cue is administered through the Cue Shire Council, which has its chambers in the historic Gentlemans Club building. The current president is Ross Pigdon. The Cue Parliament is held twice yearly in May and November.
It has in its area Boogardie quarry, and is situated away from the location of the ghost town Boogardie.
Boogardie quarry is a quarry on Boogardie Station, 35 km from Mount Magnet in the Mid West of Western Australia, that is a location of a rare deposit of orbicular granite.
Boogardie is an abandoned town in the Mid West of Western Australia.
Robert Austin traversed the area as part of an expedition in 1854, reporting it as a fine goldfield and good grazing country. The Jones family established the station in about 1880. [1]
Robert Austin (1825–1905) led the Austin expedition of 1854, one of the first European inland explanations of Western Australia with Kenneth Brown. They explored Geraldton, Mount Magnet, and the Murchison River area. Lake Austin and the town of Austin were named after him.
The Austin expedition of 1854 was an expedition of exploration undertaken in Western Australia by Robert Austin in 1854. Members of Austin's party comprised John Hardey, Kenneth Brown, J.T. Fraser (artist), Thomas Whitfield, James Guerin, Richard Buck, J. Edwards, W. Cant, Charles Farmer, and J. Woodward; and aboriginals Narryer, Wambinning, Wooddang and Souper.
The property occupied an area of 374,000 acres (151,352 ha) in 1931 when the owner Henry Jones died. [2]
In 2011 the property was held by brothers David, Paul, Henry and John Jones who are all descendents of the Jones family that originally settled the property. The station's sheep flock had contracted to about 7,000 head of sheep after several dry seasons. [3]
