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Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease within the Edjudina Land District of Western Australia, that operates as a sheep station. The station is approximately Шаблон:Convert to the south of Laverton and Шаблон:Convert north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The leasehold shares a boundary with Yundamindera Station.[1]

Edjudina Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd commenced operations in 1937, but closed down shortly after due to declining market conditions for gold.[2]

The traditional owners of the area are the Wongatha and Maduwongga peoples.[3]

The lease was established in 1892 by Watt Newland. It was one of the first pastoral leases in the goldfields; the property was stocked with sheep.[3] Newland sold Edjudina in 1921, at which time it occupied an area of Шаблон:Convert. It was acquired by the Wilkie brothers at a "highly satisfactory price".[4] The Wilkies later sold to James Withnell for £21,000. The property was then acquired by the famed sheep breeder, Edward Hawker, in 1925. Hawker paid £49,000, a record price in the east Murchison.[5] The property was stocked with 7,000 sheep and 1,200 cattle at the time.[6]

By 1934 the station was stocked with about 25,000 sheep and was still owned by E. W. Hawker and sons.[1] In 1948 the station was stocked with 12,500 sheep.[7]

The owner in 1952 was J. Maund; the property had an area of about Шаблон:Convert and was stocked with a flock of about 16,000 sheep.[8]

In 2012 the property received Шаблон:Convert of rain in 24 hours, its highest rainfall in 11 years, when the remnants of Cyclone Lua passed over the area.[9]

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