Mundrabilla, Western Australia
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Mundrabilla is in a very sparsely populated area in the far south east of Western Australia. The two significant features are Mundrabilla Roadhouse and Mundrabilla Station, which are approximately Script error: No such module "convert". apart. At the 2016 census, Mundrabilla had a population of 23, 32% male and 68% female.[1] The time zone in use is UTC+08:45.[2]
Mundrabilla Roadhouse
Mundrabilla Roadhouse was built by Roger and Pat Warren-Langford, who initially managed Mundrabilla Station. It is now a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia, on the Roe Plains (at a lower level and south of the Nullarbor Plain), Script error: No such module "convert". west of Eucla and about Script error: No such module "convert". north of the Great Australian Bight.
Mundrabilla Station
Mundrabilla Station (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), the first sheep station in the Nullarbor region, was established by William Stuart McGill (a Scotsman) and Thomas and William Kennedy (two Irishmen) in 1872. Thomas Kennedy died in 1896. McGill's first wife Annie Harkness (née Crawford) died in childbirth in 1879. Annie McGill and Thomas Kennedy are both buried on Mundrabilla Station. McGill remarried Ellen Angel Fairweather of Adelaide in 1889.
Climate
Mundrabilla has a typical arid climate; however it is cooler in summer than much of the Australian desert due to its proximity to the ocean. Despite this, Mundrabilla Station still holds the record for the equal 6th-hottest temperature in Australia, Script error: No such module "convert". recorded on 3 January 1979.[3]
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Present day
Like other locations in the Nullarbor Plain area, the area consists of nothing more than a roadhouse, open 6:00Script error: No such module "String".am to 9:30Script error: No such module "String".pm each day. The roadhouse includes a small wildlife park with emus, camels and an aviary. Pastoral activities continue in the area.
Meteorite
The Mundrabilla meteorite, the largest meteorite found in Australia, weighing Script error: No such module "convert"., was found by geologists R.B. Wilson and A.M. Cooney during a geological survey at Mundrabilla in 1966, and forms one half of the "Mundrabilla Mass". The next largest fragment weighs Script error: No such module "convert".. In all, Script error: No such module "convert". of fragments have been recovered, spread over a Script error: No such module "convert". range making it one of the largest meteorite sites in the world. The fragments fell to Earth at least one million years ago.[4][5]
See also
References
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External links
- Shire of Dundas – Towns of the Eyre Highway
- Nullarbor Net – Mundrabilla including local information.
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