Fraser Range Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Norseman on the Eyre Highway in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
The area was visited in 1870 by John and Alexander Forrest on their expedition to Adelaide. The property has a length of 160 kilometres (99 mi) and occupies an area of approximately 500,000 acres (2,023 km2).[1]
In 1891-1892 the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition visited the station.[2][3][4]
The photographic record from the expedition included many photographs of local people.[5][6]
Located on the western fringe of the Nullarbor Plain the station largely bears little resemblance to the Nullarbor proper. Dense eucalypt hardwood forest dominates much of the area.[7] The trees grow to a height of 20 to 30 metres (66 to 98 ft) and are surrounded by a dense undergrowth. From the trees the granite Fraser range rises, the highest point being Mount Pleasant, with an elevation of 679 metres (2,228 ft).[8]
The station is to the west of the Nanambinia, Balladonia, and Noondonia stations, which lie to the north and south of Eyre Highway.
The Dempster brothers were the first settlers on the station and arrived in 1872; the station was referred to as "Dempster's Fraser Range Station" in records from the 1890s.[9]
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- ^ "ABC - West Coast SA - Episode 9 - Fraser Range Station". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "THE ELDER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION". The Inquirer & Commercial News. Vol. LI, no. 16, 462. Western Australia. 24 February 1892. p. 5. Retrieved 25 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Fraser Range, 1891, retrieved 25 March 2023
- ^ Fraser Range, 1891, retrieved 25 March 2023
- ^ Elliott, F. J (1891), Sinclair's dam sinking party at Fraser Range Station, featuring a large number of Aboriginal Australians, photographed during the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-1892, retrieved 25 March 2023
- ^ Elliott, Frederick (1892), Aboriginal Australian workers sinking a dam on Dempsters' Fraser Range Station, Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, Western Australia, approximately 1892, retrieved 25 March 2023
- ^ "Fraser's Range Station, Norseman, WA". Western Argus. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 11 March 1924. p. 16. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "About Fraser Range". 2010. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Elliott, Frederick (1892), Aboriginal Australians employed on Dempsters' Fraser Range Station, Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, Western Australia, approximately 1892, retrieved 25 March 2023