Coordinates: 27°08′20″S121°20′17″E / 27.139°S 121.338°E
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Wonganoo or Wonganoo Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station and had previously operated as a sheep station.
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.
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 located about 106 kilometres (66 mi) north east of Leinster and 126 kilometres (78 mi) south east of Wiluna in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Leinster is a town in the northern goldfields area of Western Australia. It is 4 km east of the Goldfields Highway, in the Shire of Leonora local government area, 968 kilometres (601 mi) northeast of the state capital, Perth. At the 2006 census, Leinster had a population of 732.
Wiluna is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is situated on the edge of the Western Desert at the gateway to the Canning Stock Route and Gunbarrel Highway. It is the service centre of the local area for the local Aboriginal people, the pastoral industry, the Wiluna Gold Mine, and many more people who work on other mines in the area on a "fly-in/fly-out" basis. Wiluna's climate is hot and dry, with an annual rainfall of 254 mm (10 in). Mean maximum temperatures range from 19 °C (66 °F) in July, to 38 °C (100 °F) in January.
The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton and inland to 450 kilometres (280 mi) east of Wiluna in the Gibson Desert.
The station occupies an area of 349,717 hectares (864,170 acres) and is currently carrying 3,000 head of cattle and is rated to support a flock of 20,000 of sheep. [1] It is watered by two permanent springs, numerous soaks and 64 bores. Other improvements include four bedroom homestead, a two bedroom cottage and five bedroom workers quarters. The property has four sets of stockyards also boasts an aircraft hangar. It was advertised for sale at A$2.5 million.
The Boladeras family acquired Wonganoo in 1925 with it being in partnership between the two Boladeras brothers.
Malcolm Boladeras commenced running the station in 1979 after taking over from his father. By 2000 large packs of feral dogs were attacking the sheep and reduced the flock size from 9,000 to 2,000 in one year. Boladeras hired a shooter in an attempt to control the dog population but by 2004 was making the change to cattle. [2]
