Mundrabilla, Western Australia

Mundrabilla Western Australia
Mundrabilla Roadhouse
Population:	20
Established:	1872
Postcode:	6443
Elevation:	m ( ft)
Location:	km ( mi) from Perth  km ( mi) from Norseman  km ( mi) from Eucla
LGA:	Shire of Dundas
State District:	Murchison-Eyre
Federal Division:	Kalgoorlie
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall 24.6 °C 76 °F 11.2 °C 52 °F {{formatnum:237.4 mm 9.3}} in

Mundrabilla is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia, on the Nullarbor Plain,  kilometres ( mi) west of Eucla and about  kilometres ( mi) north of the Great Australian Bight.

History

Mundrabilla station, the first sheep station on the Nullarbor, was established by Bill and Ann McGill and John and Tom Kennedy (two Irishmen) in 1871. Tom Kennedy was speared to death in 1879 and Ann McGill died in childbirth.

Present day

Like other locations in the Nullarbor Plain area, the area consists of nothing more than a roadhouse, open 5:30am to midnight each day. The roadhouse includes a small wildlife park with emus, camels and an aviary. Pastoral activities continue in the area, and fragments of a meteorite spread over a 60 km range make it one of the largest meteorite sites in the world.

External links

• Shire of Dundas - Towns of the Eyre Highway
• Nullarbor Net - Mundrabilla including local information.

Coordinates: 31°′″S 127°′″E / -31.842, 127.856

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