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Yalata Homestead was built in 1880 and consisted of a 5,000 ha sheep station that extended from the Nullarbor through to
Point Brown near
Streaky Bay Sitting on a high area overlooking the neaby plains. The reason for this location was to give clear
views of the surrounding countryside to eliminate ambush type of attacks from local aboriginals in the area that were common on the town of
Yalata (today known as
Fowlers Bay) with the aboriginals escaping into the sand dunes.
The
Yalata run had outstations at Colons,
Penong, Charm,
Point Brown, Boobabie, Cundilippy,
Nundroo, Pintumba and Pedinga, and in its hey days ran 120,000 sheep and in one year, sent 2,000 bales of wool to market.
Yalata was one of the first stations in the area to erect vermin proof netting along its boundary fences to protect their sheep from the ravages of Dingos and led to almost complete extermination of Dingos on
Yalata Station.
Over 122,318 sheep were shorn at
Yalata and
Penong and
Yalata was the largest sheep station in the district.