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Emu Creek Station

Emu Creek or Emu Creek Station is a pastoral lease and cattle station located approximately east of Coral Bay and south east of Exmouth in the Ashburton-Gascoyne area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The property was established in 1891 as Wogoola Station, named for the permanent waterhole not far from the homestead site. In 1962 the station became Nyang under new management. In 2006 it was renamed Emu Creek.

The property originally occupied an area of . Initially sheep were run at Wogoola and some 20,000 were pastured and shorn in the early years. Emu Creek now occupies an area of and has a carrying capacity of 1,590 head of cattle.

Emu Creek runs a Bureau of Meteorology weather station, which in 2014 recorded 67 days with temperatures over . It was also a popular point of interest for tourists and campers for its permanent water hole and the historic Nyang Woolshed, a stop on the Wool Wagon Pathway. new management of the station has closed access to the public.

Geography

Climate

Due to its very high evapotranspiration, Emu Creek Station experiences a hot desert climate (Köppen: BWh) with very hot, slightly wetter summers and warm, very dry winters. The wettest recorded day was 18 February 1921 with of rainfall. On average, the cattle station has 207.7 clear days with 48.7 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures ranged from on 21 February 1998 to on 13 August 1986.

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