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De Grey Station is a pastoral lease formerly a sheep station and now a cattle station approximately east of Port Hedland on the mouth of the De Grey River in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Pardoo Station was established as an outstation of De Grey in 1869 and has a size of over . The station has sheep, breeding mares and camels and now runs 6,000 head of cattle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The West Australian -Home on the range )〕 ==History== The property was owned by Samuel Peter Mackay in 1875 and was briefly managed by George Julius Brockman for three months of the same year while Mackay travelled to Melbourne. Alexander Forrest, the Western Australian explorer and surveyor, began his historic 1879 expedition from De Grey River Station, leaving on 25 February 1879 and 'receiving much kind assistance from Mr Anderson' before travelling with his party overland to Condon.〔 * Forrest, Alexander (1880). ''North-West exploration : journal of expedition from DeGrey to Port Darwin''. Perth : Gov. Printer. p. 3.〕 The station occupied an area of almost in 1886 when it was owned by Messrs Grant, Anderson and Edgar. The owners had acquired an additional area from a neighbouring lease that had been abandoned by Messrs. Padbury and Co. when the price of wool was quite low. At this time the property was divided into 16 paddocks separated by about of six-wire sheep-proof fencing and all with water tanks supplied by the De Grey River. The area was struck by a cyclone in 1889 with a number of houses being destroyed, miles of fencing being torn up and the loss of over 1,300 sheep. In 1906 shearing produced 700 bales of wool, with over 43,000 sheep being shorn. The station was visited by MacRobertson's party twice during the Round Australia Expedition in 1928, once on the way to Port Hedland and then on the journey to Broome. At this time the manager of the station was Mr John Stewart and 30,000 sheep were being run on the property. The party stayed in the brick homestead, outbuildings and shearing shed during their visit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MacRobertsons Round Australia Expedition )〕 Atlas Iron Limited began mining and shipping Iron Ore from the Pardoo minesite in 2008 which takes up an area of on the station and is situated approximately South from the station homestead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appendix B – Pardoo DSO Project – EPBC Act Referral )〕 Mark Bettini, the station manager at De Grey in 2006, re-established the native Mitchell Grass in preference to the introduced Buffel grass in order to combat the spread of Parkinsonia in the area. He reported that mitchell grass grows better in clay areas and is just as nutritious to cattle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ABC Rural – Getting a hold on 'Parky' in the Pilbara )〕 Bettini is still the leasee in 2012, De Grey is operating under the Crown Lease number CL167-1980 and has the Land Act number LA3114/1142. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「De Grey Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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