Mount Florence Station

Mount Florence
Location in Western Australia

Coordinates: 21°27′05″S 119°39′05″E / 21.4513°S 119.6513°E / -21.4513; 119.6513 (Mount Florence)

Mount Florence Station, often referred to as Mount Florence, is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station.

It is located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Marble Bar and 165 kilometres (103 mi) south east of Port Hedland and in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.[1]

The station was established in 1882 by W.A. and W.E. Robinson, who selected 100,000 acres (40,469 ha) of land just north of Mount Margaret in the Hamersley Range. The property is named because it was on a long flat hill and from the initials of the younger Robinson's fiancee, MF, Mary Francis.[2]

The homestead was built in the 1890s. The oldest block in the complex was demolished owing to extensive white ant damage. The homestead is a group of buildings arranged about a forecourt and set on different levels as they ascend the lower slope of the high hill to the south east.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Map of Mount Florence, WA". Bonzle. Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Native Murders". Western Mail. 58, (2, 946). Western Australia. 20 August 1942. p. 18. Retrieved 10 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Mt. Florence Homestead". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
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