{{Short description|Pastoral lease in Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Location map|Western Australia|label=Cardabia |position=right |lat_deg=23.104|lat_dir=S |lon_deg=113.804|lon_dir=E |caption=Location in Western Australia}} {{coord|23.104|S|113.804|E|type:landmark_region:AU|name=Cardabia|display=title}} '''Cardabia Station''', commonly referred to as '''Carbabia''', is a [[pastoral lease]] that operates as a [[cattle station]] in the [[Gascoyne]] region of [[Western Australia]].
It is situated about {{convert|6|km|mi|0}} north east of [[Coral Bay, Western Australia|Coral Bay]] and {{convert|133|km|mi|0}} south of [[Exmouth, Western Australia|Exmouth]]. [[Warroora|Warroora Station]] is on Carbadia's southern boundary.<ref name=WAR>{{cite web|url=http://www.warroora.com/people.php|title=Waroora People|year=2013|accessdate=18 December 2013|publisher=Warroora|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209005625/http://warroora.com/people.php|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Cardabia is currently owned by the [[Indigenous Land Corporation]], who acquired the {{convert|2000|km2|sqmi|0|adj=on}} property in 1997. The Indigenous Land Corporation divested to the Baiyangu Aboriginal Corporation in 1998; the latter operate the property, including providing training opportunities to the [[traditional owners]] of the area.<ref name=ILC>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilc.gov.au/ILC-Businesses/Profiles/Cardabia-Station |title=Indigenous Land Corporation – Cardabia Station |year=2013 |accessdate=18 December 2013 |publisher=Australian Government |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221133640/http://www.ilc.gov.au/ILC-Businesses/Profiles/Cardabia-Station |archivedate=21 December 2013 }}</ref>
The earliest recorded lease in the area was for {{convert|20000|acre|ha|0}}, taken up by the Quailborough Squatting Company on New Year's Day in 1880.<ref name=WAR/>
The Cardabia and Lyndon runs, with a total area of {{convert|428000|acre|ha|0}}, were put up for sale in 1884; both were unstocked at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76216091 |title=Advertising.|newspaper=[[Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)|The Daily News]]|location=Perth|date=9 May 1884|accessdate=18 December 2013|page=2|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
By 1913 approximately 16,000 sheep were shorn, producing 330 [[wool bale|bales of wool]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75100544 |title=Gascoyne.|newspaper=[[The Northern Times]] |location=Carnarvon, Western Australia|date=22 November 1913 |accessdate=19 December 2013 |page=3|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The area was struck by drought, with only {{convert|2|in|mm|0}} of rain falling through a 13-month period from mid-1918 to late 1919.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75270238 |title=Cardabia |newspaper=[[The Northern Times]] |location=Carnarvon, Western Australia |date=13 September 1919 |accessdate=18 December 2013 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 2015 the station owners had to renegotiate the lease agreement with the state government, including having the government excise sections of pastoral land along the world-heritage listed [[Ningaloo Coast]] from the property, for conservation and tourism ventures.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-29/pastoral-lease-rollover-draws-closer/6504144|title=Five weeks and counting: Negotiations ongoing as Western Australia's pastoral lease rollover approaches|author=Lucie Bell|date=29 May 2015|accessdate=19 December 2015|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of pastoral leases in Western Australia]]
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Stations of the Gascoyne Western Australia}}
[[Category:Stations in Gascoyne]] [[Category:Shire of Carnarvon]]