George Julius Brockman (2 January 1850 – 29 August 1912) was a prominent explorer and pastoralist in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions of Western Australia.
[1] Brockman's father was a settler in the Lake Bamban district near Gingin.
Brockman left home at 16 years of age and rode south to Busselton and eventually took a job at Henty station near Bunbury.
He named the May after the granddaughter of John Septimus Roe, Mary Matilda (May) Thomson, and the Meda after HMS Meda, an Admiralty surveying vessel that charted the coastline in the area including the river mouth in 1880.
Brockman acquired the 800,000 acres (323,749 ha) Minilya Station in 1884 for £15,000,[2] from his brother.