Anna Plains Station

[4] The MacRobertson Expedition visited the area in June 1928, and described the station as being over 1 million acres in extent and famed for its shorthorn cattle.

[10] Following a cyclone in 1936, the station manager found the carcasses of 7 mules, 49 horses and 102 head of cattle that had been swept into the sea and drowned.

[11] During the storm it was estimated that 3.5 inches (89 mm) of rain fell; damage included several windmills being blown over and a part of the homestead being destroyed.

[14] 1,200 head of cattle from the station were loaded at Eighty Mile Beach in 1954 onto the LST landing craft Wan Kuo in the first shipment of its kind from Western Australia.

[16] A number of Indigenous people, including artist Big John Dodo and his wife Rosie Munroe, were evicted from Anna Plains in the 1960s following a change in the station's management.

[17] On 1 February 1978, Cyclone Vern made landfall near Anna Plains with winds of about 145 km/h (90 mph), and caused flooding and minor damage in the region.