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For the shire, see Shire of Murchison.

The Murchison is an interim Australian bioregion located within the Mid West of Western Australia. The bioregion is related to the catchment area of the Murchison River and comprises 28,120,554 hectares (69,487,400 acres). Historically the region has been known as The Murchison or Murchison Goldfields.

Geology

=Fauna

Crabb apples and lots of mud nuts native to this region The well known family of the region is the Popes and has the record of the largest mud crab coming in at 12.8 kg . After recent data coming into light it has been revealed that the mud crab was eating turtle frogs which has been eating crabb apples which caused the mud crabb to develop mudnuts.

Fact - Turtle frogs native to the area a easily stepped on causing the head to fly off with the pressure.

A man named shaye cruikshank of Avely has recently caught mudnuts on the way to shark bay via kalbarri for the school holidays.

Flora

Western development

The bioregion has extensive mining areas, with a large number of older abandoned workings. Most notable of the abandoned towns is Big Bell where in 1902 Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States was a company representative.[1] The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder radio telescope is located nearby, and was officially opened in October 2012.[2]

The region has large sheep stations and cattle stations - also known as pastoral leases. There are extensive numbers of feral goats in the region which are caught and exported to supplement station incomes. Meeberrie station is considered the location of the strongest recorded earthquake in Australian history.

Political boundaries

The local government area of Yalgoo, Cue, Mount Magnet, Murchison and Meekatharra are all located within parts of the bioregion.

Population is very scattered; the largest population centre is Meekatharra with the small mining towns of Yalgoo, Mount Magnet and Cue.

See also

References

  1. ^ Cue heritage trail
  2. ^ "Outback Observatory open for business", ABC News, retrieved 7 October 2012 from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-05/outback-observatory-open-for-business/4298094

Further reading

  • Green, Neville, 1997 Aboriginal names of the Murchison District c. 1848-1890 (data processing by Susan Moon). Perth, W.A..
  • E.C. Grunsky ... [et al.] Report on laterite geochemistry in the CSIRO-AGE database for the southern Murchison region : Yalgoo, Kirkalocka, Perenjori, Ninghan sheets Wembley, W.A. : CRC LEME, 1998 CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience report ; 2R (CSIRO. Division of Exploration Geoscience) ; 2R. ISBN 0-642-28238-2
  • Lefroy, Charles Bayden ...'talks about Murchison station life in the 1930s.' Early Days, Vol. 10, Part 5 (1993), p. 503-512.

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