The country is mostly of a coastal nature with alternating sand ridges and salt bush flats.
Several different native grasses, shrubs and the wattle variety Wanu provide good feed for stock.
[2] The first Europeans to visit the area were an expedition led by Charles Brockman and George Hamersley in 1876.
[3] In 1915, the drover Alf Cream took 2350 sheep from Boolathana and drove them overland for nine weeks to Meeberrie, another station owned by Butcher.
The journey should have taken five weeks but the country was waterlogged following twenty consecutive days of heavy rain.