Hamelin Station, Western Australia

Hamelin Station or Hamelin Station Reserve is a tourist site and conservation reserve, that was a pastoral lease, occupying an area of 202,000 hectares (500,000 acres)[1] near the Shark Bay World Heritage Area in Western Australia.

[5] The homestead is 3 kilometres from the nearby historic Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station[6] and Post Office.

The lease has approximately 32 kilometres of shoreline[1][7] on the hypersaline Hamelin Pool Embayment, which feature some of the best living stromatolite formations[1] in the world.

At this time the first bore at the homestead was estimated to have a daily flow of 3,000,000 gallons per day and had created the artificial lake, which he had declared a sanctuary because of the abundant bird life.

[14] The station was purchased from the Hamelin Pastoral Company by grazier Richard (Dick) Vincent in 1970, and subsequently sold to pastoralist Les Schubert in 1974[14] and managed by his son Philip for a number of years before being sold to the politician Ross Lightfoot.

[14][15] The Wake family subsequently purchased it in September 1978[15] before selling it to Bush Heritage Australia in March 2015.