Coordinates: 16°42′54″S125°27′40″E / 16.715°S 125.461°E Charnley River Station, commonly referred to as Charnley River, and formerly known as Beverley Springs Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Western Australia.
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.
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.
In Australia, a cattle station is a large farm, whose main activity is the rearing of cattle; the owner of a cattle station is called a grazier. The largest cattle station in the world is Anna Creek Station in South Australia, Australia.
It is situated about 205 kilometres (127 mi) east of Derby and 287 kilometres (178 mi) north west of Halls Creek and is accessed via the Gibb River Road and is named after the Charnley River that flows through the property. It is currently owned and managed by Peter and Cheryl Camp and runs a herd of approximately 3,000 cattle. [1]
Derby is a town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. At the 2016 census, Derby had a population of 3,325 with 47.2% of Aboriginal descent. Along with Broome and Kununurra, it is one of only three towns in the Kimberley to have a population over 2,000. Located on King Sound, Derby has the highest tides in Australia, with the peak differential between low and high tide reaching 11.8 metres.
Halls Creek is a town situated in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is located between the towns of Fitzroy Crossing and Turkey Creek (Warmun) on the Great Northern Highway. It is the only sizeable town for 600 km on the Highway.
The Gibb River Road is a road in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Charnley River shares a boundary with Mount Hart Station, Mount House Station and vacant crown land. The property has its own airstrip and three gorges that are spring fed supplying fresh water all year. [2]
Mount Hart Station, commonly referred to as Mount Hart, is a defunct pastoral lease that once operated as a cattle station in Western Australia. The lands are part of a conservation area and the homestead operates as a wilderness lodge for tourists.
Mount House Station, commonly referred to as Mount House, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Western Australia.
The property occupies an area of 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and was acquired in 1969 by the Nixon family when it was a run down property known as Beverley Springs. It was the first property along the Gibb River road to offer accommodation to tourists. Marion Nixon wrote Children in the Sun, a book about raising her five children on the station and later wrote Stop whispering Annie. [3]
The Barrett family acquired the property in 1981, both the sons, Matt and Russell, discovered an unknown species of pitcher plant on the property. The two have gone on to be botanists specializing in the Kimberley region and even rediscovered a species of Auranticarpa collected during the expedition of Philip Parker King in 1821 that was thought to be extinct. [4]
Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Auranticarpa is a genus of trees in the family Pittosporaceae. All six species occur in monsoonal forest and rainforest margins in Northern Australia. The species, all formerly included in the genus Pittosporum, are as follows:
